I don't know if anyone is even still on this blog but I just needed to vent somewhere semi private so hello impromptu return.
and the absolute and utter naivete in that question simultaneously broke my heart and pissed me off. There will not be any help coming. Not now, not next year, not five or ten years from now. Nobody is going to rescue us nor rescue you. And I can tell a majority of other Americans have never been in a position where you are acutely aware of that, it's never been a situation in your life where you've had to stand completely alone and totally aware that nobody is coming to "save you" from whatever bad thing is happening to you. And it's also an incredibly privileged and sheltered line of thought to automatically believe that no matter how awful either your own choices/actions or the collective choices/actions to sit there and go "well someone else/some other country is going to come fix it, it'll be fine. We can all be citizens of idk fucking China *cue forced laughter*" like yeah never gonna fucking happen babe. That is never going to happen. No other country on earth bears the burden of responsibility for America.
This is all a consequence of not bothering to listen, read, or acknowledge anything or anyone around you (if you were a trump voter). This is all a direct consequence of you wanting it to literally be executively excused to walk around and act like a shithead. You wanted presidential permission to call people slurs. You wanted presidential permission to enact and encourage violence against others. You wanted presidential permission to feel superior.
When a majority of the American north has zero power because you elected a maniac that picked a fight with Canada, it's your fault. All those people who will die will be your fault. I do not care, those deaths will come as a direct result of your choice and your selfishness not because of Canada being forced to respond. When people starve to death in the hundreds and thousands because grocery prices will soar as a result of tariffs against Mexico (our main fruit and vegetable importer) it will be your fault. When the unhoused population around the nation explodes as people default on mortgages, rent, ect because they have to choose between making payments or eating that day it will be your fault. People who lived through the 2008 recession have already given us a glimpse of what that hell was like, this will be worse than that. This will be the first step to complete and total collapse, I truly believe that. Do you understand how long it takes to truly recover from economic collapse? Look at rust belt states. The collapse of the steel industry happened like forty years ago, none of those areas have properly recovered. That is a small peak into what it's like to deal with economic collapse. How long did it take the nation to recover from the great depression? Arguably not until our economic heights of the 1980s, a long fucking time. Some could argue we never truly recovered.
Did you know they fired the guy that headed the department that prevented predatory actions from banks and lenders? Oh you didn't know you lived in a state where, legally because of that agency, debtors you owe money to couldn't garnish you or show up at your house demanding payment? Guess what? They will now. Those loans you've ignored? Get ready to have to come up with potentially thousands of dollars or face the consequence of losing everything you have and being either on the street or in jail. Get ready to be even more financially strapped because now your paychecks are getting garnished so you extra can't afford food or rent or insurance or medication or a million other things.
We will all suffer and die together because of the choices of a selfish majority. And none of us will even get to enjoy or gloat over their suffering because we'll be starving and dying right along side them. No help is coming.
That is why it's so important to stop thinking selfishly and hyper individually because it is killing us all. You are not an island, you do not exist independently of the world around you. I do not exist independently of your choices, nor my own. And you and I will pay for that choice together, regardless of the fact that only one of us even made that choice. Fuck you
