We were promised our own representatives that we still don’t have. As you may be able to imagine, the white people who are elected state wide don’t always have the best interests of Native peoples in mind.

Neither do Puerto Ricans, Guamanians, American Samoans, or Virgin Islanders. Congressional representation is a bad joke, and the house hasn't expanded seats since 1910 which greatly privileges representation for smaller population states. Gerrymandering is just a splash in the pot compared to how rigged they have the legislature.

My comment was directed specifically at the person I was responding to. Obviously being an ally is a choice not helped or hindered by one’s own ethnicity, creed, religion, sexuality, etc.

And the Israelis too. Don’t be so harsh on yourself taking all the blame ;)

Where are you from with your holier than thou talk?

I'm confused, are you American or not?

It seems like you wrote most of the comment being not an American (emphasis added):

More than Americans have, presumably. All this US apologia is fucking hilarious, you guys elected a pedophile.

...then you said you were an American.

It's fine if you're not an American. But just engage in good faith please.

Unfortunately it is now a world-wide problem. What are you going to do about it?

We did this.

Speak for yourself. I voted Green.

Trump is the inevitable result of liberals spending all their energy opposing progressives and cooperating with fascists.

That's a salient point, but the 'we' you're pointing to isn't a part of this. Billionaires and the Epstein Class are who the finger should be pointing at. Voters only have any real power at the local level, unless you're planning to follow in the footsteps of Player 2.

We decided at some point to stop enforcing laws on rich people

Again, I'd argue there's no we here. The only power you or I have is in our local neighborhood, and in mine, we're doing good things. Hell, my city was one of the few to put a killer cop behind bars. (And in the US, you can count on your fingers the number of killer cops who've spent any time in prison.)

Simple.

The billionaires decide.

You can blame the whole of the US population if you like, but voters here only have any power on the local level. National elections are wholly driven and decided by the billionaire class (which is why you saw both Democrats and Republicans fight so hard against Mamdani), so to me, it's a tad absurd to pretend that the people as a whole support this. That's even more true when you look at the 2025 and 2026 elections (so far), where nearly all of the candidates backed by Donald have lost, regardless of the state, and most in districts Donald won by double digits in 2024. (Demonstrating that people do not support the war in Iran or the pedophile coverup.)

Hell, Donald can't even gerrymander anymore, because the Republican Party can't accurately project where they have voter strength. That is the incredible extent to which people are opposed to this.

And you make yourself sound ignorant by pretending otherwise in the face of all of these facts.

The downside is that, since the Epstein Class controls politics at the national level, the opposition party doesn't really oppose anything, but there are a few candidates with some strength that could do some limited good, like Graham Platner.