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Saw this posted somewhere. Not my words, but I and many Americans I know agree with this:
"To everyone outside the US who's angry at Americans right now, especially those of us who hate Trump and feel trapped: Please understand this. We do not elect our president the way you think we do. Millions of us voted against him. Millions of us are terrified of the damage being done. We are not cheering this on. We are living inside it. If you're wondering why we don't just "revolt like the French" or "fix it" here is the reality of being an American right now:
Our system is rigid, slow, and stacked in ways that make "just revolt" a fantasy. We don't have a culture where mass strikes shut the country down overnight. We don't have a centralized government you can pressure in one city. We have fifty states, militarized policing, surveillance, debt, and jobs tied to health insurance. For many people, losing a job for protesting means losing healthcare and housing.
France is smaller than Texas. Organizing a "national" revolt across 3.8 million square miles (9.8 million square km) and 330 million people isn't just difficult, it's logistically close to impossible. That doesn't mean we're complacent. It means we're constrained. Anger at US power is fair. Fear of US decisions is fair. But blaming every American, especially those who are fighting, exhausted, and scared alongside you, misses the mark.
We're not watching this from the sidelines. We're stuck in the same burning house. Just closer to the fire."
Edit: I believe credit goes to Jason Gervase, ASL Pinnacle
Just to add on for the people in the back:
Unlike in a sane country, this can be damn close to a death sentence. 11% of Americans have diabetes and can just straight up die when they lose access to insulin. Hospitals do not give any service beyond emergency care if you're uninsured, God forbid you need something like regular dialysis. Homeless services are barely existent and are stretched to the limit already; unhoused people have something like a 3.5x mortality rate. If you spiral and lose your housing you're statistically taking 20 years off of your life.
And of course some people are still taking that risk. I hope people in a safer position read this as a call to action. If you have stable housing, good health and have transportation to a state capital you're in a better situation to act than the majority of Americans.
Heck, if you're managing to live paycheck to paycheck without saddling up on CC debt, then you're doing better than 50% of the people here.
Thanks for sharing, I'm going to save it as well as it is well written.
Seems to me that people in the US should be starting a campaign to convince people not to submit federal taxes this year. What are the 100k or so IRS agents going to do when 170m people don't pay?
That's another thing that people don't realize. Taxes are usually automatically deducted from a person's paycheck and paid to the state and fed by the employer.
Most people's taxes for 2025 are already paid.
One would have to get their employer to not do the deductions (something a lot of "sovereign citizens" try) and often it's not possible to do.
For countries that issue their own currency, such as the USA, taxes don't really pay for governments's spending, as the governments control the issue of money. Governments create money when they spend and taxes cancel money out of existence (and force the currency into use).
All this to say, not paying taxes will never stop the US government from spending money. However, it could have strong symbolic power!
Keep telling yourself this. Out of 330m, there should easily be multiple million people protesting every week.
That's a lot of words to say we're divided.