Today's attacks

[TigressDem]

36. We simply STAND UP for DEMOCRACY like we did with UKRAINE

It isn't because US is all powerful, but we do have (or historically had) some influence.

It's part of "the WHOLE WORLD is Watching YOU" that CAN be a political deterrent, or at least it was in the past.

It's a show of UNITY. Or it could have been.

INSTEAD of being a country that other countries see as a solid Democracy, we can't even get together enough to pass resolutions that show we still believe in and support Democracy for those who reach out to US.

What Bernie says speaks more to our total disarray being an embarrassment to Democracy than any hope that our words alone would have saved Brazil.

HOW it USED to be was that when there was a threat to DEMOCRACY the US stood up and stood with those wanting to keep their DEMOCRACY. We would get NATO involved, have people help make sure voting was not being impeded. It would have lead to more than words, BUT THE US COULD NOT EVEN GET THE WORDS OUT because we are dealing with our own insurrectionists.

Before GW *ush we had a lot more political sway in the world. After 9/11 he lit a match in the middle east and we've been going down hill since then in many ways. 100's of years of political negotiations and establishing that we are a nation that was mature enough to be trusted flushed down the toilet.

We used to have enough conversations around the World that had become working relations even if we couldn't help everyone, at least we were trying NOT to be part of the problem. It's why countries have foreign ambassadors, to try and keep the peace and help when and if we can.

We were never some sort of magic wand, but we were often more helpful than harmful as a nation, even if our business folks dirtied up other countries worse than they did at home.