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  • As someone long ashamed to call themselves American, good.

    We're a bad, hateful neighbor. Even before Trump, when I went overseas, I lied I was Canadian. You saw something decent in us for a long time that was never there. I see that as the one silver lining to Trump, the Reagan/Welch grotesquerie of celebrated greed that Trump is merely the latest symptom of is finally naked for the world to gawk at in horror. May no more goodwill or respect be cast in our direction.

    • I saw an article earlier that said Americans are planning on traveling to Europe more. So a sensitive question for you, if it's ok: What places in the world do you feel you could travel to right now where you feel you'd be welcomed as an American? Sincerely asking.

      • My hope would be nowhere, but unfortunately Europe especially has been infected with the greed disease we've been intentionally spreading for half a century through strong arm diplomacy there and military action in places like South America. The UK has completely fallen, France is resisting but losing, and Germany is in the process of falling to that greed disease.

        Because of that, sadly, I don't see much of western Europe unwelcoming us. The UK is practically an American forward operating base that runs on our exported greed and willful ignorance. Brexit was a symptom of that. The Nordic countries and Eastern Europe not so much because of our heightened antagonism of their interests including our declared expansionism both from us and support of Russia.

        I expect the Nordic nations and most Asian nations to turn on us as their values still have some semblance of wellbeing of society > short term economic expectations for their elite, a concept we've been at war with for a long time, but minimally diplomatic about until Trump.

        Africa and South America will still be welcoming of American money because they're desperate, South America especially because the US has used our power to keep them economically desperate through tons of regime destabilizing military actions over the last century, but desperation means you can't be picky.

        Obviously there will be exception nations that still sadly see strategic advantage in allying with and advocating for tourism with proud deceivers like the US, but that would be my wide swath guesses regarding regions.

        Then again, maybe I'm a pessimist and the world will rise to largely sanction and cut us off as our expansionist, fascist moves become more pronounced and malevolent intent becomes irrefutable. It really depends on how much the world continues to fall for our signature Clarion call of "just let it happen, and YOU might become one of the rich elite stomping on the little guy. It'll trickle down...pfffff!" even as we've finally been shown as the capitalist misery factory that we are and have been for decades.

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