You don't even see that the only way you can even say all that is by not being an American.

You have healthcare -- excellent healthcare -- and you are not in a situation like mine where you have none, and what few tax dollars are being spent domestically are being cut off in favor of more aid to (for example) Israel, a country not only with excellent socialized healthcare but subsidized higher education, so that they can enjoy a much higher standard of living while our money goes to fund their genocide because our president -- NOT us, which we proved yesterday -- wants to prop up a failing authoritarian whose days are as numbered as the war he is waging.

You literally have no idea what it is to try to manage chronic health conditions without healthcare, none. Zero. But that is my situation as I am writing this. You claim Australia is supporting your neighbors, but you are managing to do it while maintaining a standard of living at home, which is something we Americans have not enjoyed in a long, long time. Right now, my tax dollars go EVERYWHERE ELSE but my own needs, to the extent that many rural hospitals are already closing, people are going hungry, all these things that your propaganda does not show you about how it is here.

"America first" is what you distilled my comment into, but that's not what I'm talking about. I don't need or want your trust, anymore than I want to be a partner in ASIO or "project power in southeast Asia". And more importantly, you don't need to be sitting here trying to sell it to me. Why are you?

What we all need to be doing is not looking back to what is gone, but what to build with what is left that will serve all of us. And by "all of us" I do mean ALL of us, not just the historical winners.

For example, if there are trade agreements that are unfair to Australia, such as your claim to US pharma, then why are you still in them? Your government gave you up for that, it's not all on us. You should see all this as an opportunity then.

Your health insurance is a shitshow because it’s a shitshow, and throwing tax money at it won’t fix it.

You have no idea what you don't even know, lol. Enjoy your socialized healthcare, because your tax dollars -- and mine -- are going toward it. We're helping to pay for your security so you can afford to spend on your healthcare. I want to turn that around.

The rising tide lifts all boats.

Yes! And that's exactly what I want. For all of us. Myself included.