Not to put too fine a point on it, but it's literally been heading this way since Reagan, if not since Eisenhower. And before that? Honestly, the USA has always been a shitshow that lied about it's own brutal, racist, bloodlust filled history. I'm not sure there was ever going to be another outcome other than this.

Maybe it's better this way, as fucked as that is to say, considering how many US citizens will suffer.

But on the flip side, our taxes paid for making other countries suffer just as much for decades and decades now. Two wrongs don't make a right, but I can't see the countries who have suffered under our thumb for so long and whose histories have been drastically changed due to our intervention (Chile, Iran, just as two off the top of my head examples, there are many, many more) having much sympathy for us.

Be careful out there everybody. I still want to hope for the best, but the time for change was before people like me were even born. I'm in my forties.