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Johan's avatar

Liberal democracies like Canada and the European Union are quietly absorbing the moral slack left by the United States. They are resettling refugees, enforcing climate commitments, and defending human rights while the U.S. continues to extort allies through trade, military dependency, and financial leverage.

Transactionalism is replacing values-based diplomacy. Human rights are now negotiable. And the United States no longer pretends otherwise.

So why do liberal democracies still treat the U.S. as a moral compass while being shaken down for obedience?

The truth is, many are already hedging. They are building regional resilience, forging multipolar alliances, and quietly disentangling.

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Victoria Stone's avatar

Well said

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Michael Pergola's avatar

Our founding fathers were brilliant but they could never have imagined that Americans would use the freedoms they created to overturn democracy itself yet that’s where we’re headed.

From birthright citizenship to the 1st Amendment the system has been hacked from the inside and they’ll always be a depraved defense attorney to defend even the most treasonous of actions .

The enemy is within .

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Protect the Vote's avatar

The Disney Boycott Works Well….To A Point

Disney is a direct consumer related company They can ill afford to lose customers Not so much Nexstar which is tied to Disney But Nexstar didn’t cave because they have a multibillion dollar deal in front of Brendan Carr with Tegna who owns TV stations that Nexstar wants in the Atlanta, Seattle, Minneapolis, Phoenix, Boston, Chicago, Dallas-Fort Worth, Denver, Detroit, and Washington, D.C. markets Of course far right Sinclair is a MAGA holder of the most radio stations in the country and is a prominent disseminator of Nazi propaganda

So it’s easier to boycott Sinclair and certainly Disney because they have direct consumer relationships But there's a problem for boycotting consumers when there is no direct consumer interaction with the company Then boycotts don't work as well? How does one boycott when corporate institutions are not beholden to Nexstar and Tegna??

We should all take a look at the radio stations we support and the entertainment networks we chose

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Jennifer Anderson's avatar

Thank you for this message. People need to realize how serious the threat to our stability is right now and how prevalent the foreign bots are when they go online. We have the power to save ourselves, we just need the will.

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Brian Wroten's avatar

When you equivocate between leftist social media accounts and actual elected conservative politicians and major media pundits calling for “civil war” you’re helping MAGA, not democracy.

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Aaron Reifler's avatar

You’re pretending that the American president is not Putin’s lapdog.

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