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Oh so the issue is me taking personal responsibility for the Trump admin? Am I personally responsible for the Iraq war as well? I mean I personally voted against all that and Trump but you mean to say that I can do something to collectively make you feel better? Responsibility absolutely affects the whole country but you’re really just pissing into the wind with this half assed blame game… you feel the need to impugn people you’ve never met just to feel justified at picking a fight.
Im not picking a fight or even disagreeing with you, I'm simply mentioning how desperate your own argument is…
Again, I am not saying you are personally responsible, and blame is not the same as responsibility. But as an American, you do bear responsibility for the mess your country has created (in the sense that, if you do not try to stop it, you are complicit). Its the same as how everyday Germans in Nazi Germany had a moral responsibility to stop the Nazi regime, and those that didn’t bother or made excuses are rightly remembered as being complicit and as behaving in ways that were morally reprehensible. Except, unlike the Germans, you are not yet living in a dictatorship, so you still have democratic means of resolving this (for now). So you have even less of an excuse than the Germans did.
This should not he a hard concept for you to understand. Everyone else in the Western world, except for Americans apparently, seem to understand this quite fine.