but uh, yeah, we’re aware that our country is collapsing in front of the world in real time and it’s embarrassing to say the least, horrifying more like.

I've a huge confidence in the USA, even sick to the chore by illiteracy and by raging money-grabbing-rapacity—because it's not just capitalism anymore talking, it's something rabid and uncontrollable and so intoxicated, that doesn't rely on hard work anymore. Something without a name that you now seem to have turned against yourself, and against your allies. That should worry everyone, as should the unbelievable wave of proud idiotism (if it wasn't, it's now officially a word) that's also going on in the USA. Still, I refuse to doubt the USA have completely lost it.

That said, for the time being it doesn't look pretty at all to witness the most powerful of 'us' happily re-elect such an illiterate racist buffoon (also the instigator of a failed coup); while at the same time watching him spit in the face of most if not all of its allies (doesn't matter much if that was deserved or not); while lowering his pants in front of its enemies; while the whole country looks like its slipping into a state of quasi civil war; while a few persons of power are quickly dismantling/gutting all safeguards that were supposed to prevent any grab of power; while more and more of its population start acting like a mob of proud illiterate and ultra violent absolute idiots. Don't get me wrong, we have our own fair share of shit going on around here, its just that the USA was supposed to be the leader and role model.

Well, all that combined is not reassuring and will not help appease those unfriendly feelings expressed by so many other countries around the world. Most of them also having started to imagine a future without us, that would instead orbit around Russia and China (and India?) I imagine.

Pessimistic me thinks that, whatever is bound to happen, it likely wont be pretty.

Less pessimistic me also don't worry too much about the issue. We've already been trough some real hardship in the approx. 2000 years the 'West' has been a thing. But there is that little detail: we are in a unprecedented situation where we (not just you the USA, most of us) are insisting on electing the more incompetent people (and the stupidest ones) to deal with whatever major crisis is bound to happen, while seeking refuge and solace behind the most stupid and naive ideas being so sure we can't be wrong ever because yeah, it's us! Meanwhile, other countries seem to do the exact opposite kind of choice... and we can mock them all we want and say they're retrogrades, clueless, or whatever so far I would say they're not the ones demonstrating they're clueless, quite the contrary. And that could cost us dear.

Sorry for the rant. Sadness of an old grumpy dude talking, nothing more obviously.