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After the US midterm rout of Trumpism, the world struggles to trust America again (apnews.com)
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For Joe Reeve, the midterm afterglow faded fast.

The London startup founder was among the wave around the Trump-weary world awakening to the stunning news that Americans had sharply rejected President Donald Trump’s fist-in-the-eye stewardship of the United States that had started a war with Iran, forged no peace in Ukraine or the Mideast and made gas and food so expensive.

Voters, Reeve saw online, had flipped control of both houses of Congress, handing the power to check the president to his rival Democrats. American democracy, 250 years on, had survived the Trump era.

But a deep and profound distrust of the United States had survived the vote, too. And from national leaders to aspiring American immigrants, no one seemed confident that change was afoot.

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[–] 6 points 3 days ago

Well, it's because the kids are indoctrinated to believe that the US is the best. Having to stand up at the start of the school day to do the Pledge of Allegiance, for instance.

And the history books like to go over the good parts. The not so good parts, like the Nullification Crisis, the fuckery from the US where they threatened to blow up Japan's shit if they don't allow trade, the colonization of the Philippines and operation to quell the associated rebellion, and the routine bullying of Haiti tends to be glossed over.

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