I absolutely agree with you.
I’m European and think Berlusconi was Trump way before Trump. Sarkozy was a terrible telling of France leaning into the far-right as a new normal, and people are now still cheering him and paying him tribute as he heads to prison for corruption by the way. What?? Bolsonaro in Brazil, the same. And the list goes on.
This all to say, you’re correct. This is everywhere. And I do believe it is starting to coalesce into the same global movement and in my opinion backed and financed by the very same people worldwide as a destabilisation of democracies to establish the new feudal system that is already in play, but not in total control.
But you do have to admit the U.S. has some unique problems. Like Mass shootings and serial killers. In both of these, the U.S. has more occurrences than all the other countries on the respective lists combined. WTF?
And if you’re in the Netherlands, the existence of a functioning public health care system is something that makes a huge difference. Including the reduction of crime.
This is why I’m gonna end on a quote from the great George Carlin…
“When you’re born you get a ticket to the freak show. When you’re born in America, you get a front row seat.”
Oh, I do know that. And I apologise if I inadvertently implied something else in the process.
In the case of these two, the serial killers one, it was the number of serial killers reported to date on record. It wasn’t percentage per capita. It was all the other countries with reported serial killers on record (because not all countries even had a single number on record). When all the other ranked countries’ occurrences were summed, it still came quite short in comparison to the American number alone. I saw this on a broadcast news report about a decade ago, where they went on about what reasons could be the catalyst for such (there were too many referenced and suggested to briefly resume here now), this to say that my memory could be faltering too, but this may be something that can be found online somewhere if one goes looking for it.
In the case of mass shootings, there’s too many statistics being thrown around about this all the time now for me to pinpoint which one it was. But personally knowing people from countries with a higher violent crime rate than the U.S. it is still not a practice known to any of them to have “school shooting drills” for students. That’s a particularly unique U.S. occurrence.
I was merely talking about these two specific issues. I wasn’t talking about anything else. And again, I apologise if the way I wrote these suggested otherwise.
And what you stated should be highlighted about every statistic everywhere all the time.
And I want to reiterate again that I agree with the original comment we’re branching off. Too much focus is being placed around the U.S. in a silly global “schadenfreude”, that I find quite rude to the many people in the U.S. who don’t deserve any of it. Most of what is happening there is happening everywhere and we ought to be vigilant and helpful.
And if you are in the U.S. and particularly in one of the states being harassed and invaded, please be safe, and know that most of the idiots you see around the web mocking this situation, are actually also rooting for you to turn the tide.
I wish you nothing but the best, and for you and your loved ones to be safe.