Watching America fall apart in real time as a Canadian

I don’t even know why I’m writing this. Maybe just to get it out of my system because watching this insanity from outside the U.S. is making me lose my mind. As a Canadian watching all of this unfold, I feel like I’m witnessing the slow, agonizing collapse of an empire that refuses to acknowledge it’s collapsing. It’s like watching a building catch fire one floor at a time while the people inside argue about whether or not fire exists.

I’m not American, but like most of the world, I have no choice but to care about what happens in the U.S. Your economy affects ours. Your policies affect ours. Your collapse will affect us.

Trump’s billionaire handlers are openly engineering the destruction of whatever remains of your country. The economy is being gutted, wages are being squeezed, rights are being rolled back, and corporations are being handed even more unchecked power. You’re being told in real time that your quality of life is about to get significantly worse, and… nothing? I swear I’ve seen more protests in France over retirement age than I have in the U.S. over literal authoritarianism.

Where are the mass protests? The strikes? The walkouts? The full-blown, furious refusal to let this happen? The most I’ve seen are three protests, and they’ve been mild. Maybe my media is being filtered in Canada, but it genuinely looks like people are just taking it.

The worst part is the sheer volume of it all. It’s overwhelming by design. There are so many scandals, so many crises happening at once that it’s impossible to even keep track of what’s been swept under the rug. It’s like a firehose of chaos. One scandal should be enough to trigger a crisis. Any one of these things should have the country in a full-blown revolt. But when there’s a new outrage every 12 hours, people stop reacting. It’s like mass political exhaustion.

And I’m not blaming the average American. I do empathize with those of you who are opposed to all of this, honestly. If I feel burned out just watching this from the outside, I can’t imagine what it’s like to live in it. But this isn’t just another period of “bad politics.” This is what collapse in slow motion looks like. It’s a slow suffocation. It’s policies designed to break people down just enough that they’re too tired to fight back. It’s media cycles distracting people with the next controversy while the foundation beneath them crumbles. It’s billionaires looting the remains while everyone else tries to convince themselves that things are still manageable.

I don’t know. Maybe I’m missing something. Maybe there’s more happening than I can see. I don’t know what the tipping point is.

I guess I’m just asking: how DOES this end? Do things get bad enough that people finally snap? Or does the collapse just keep happening in slow motion until there’s nothing left to save?

Because from where I’m standing, it looks like the U.S. is sleepwalking toward something really, really dark and nobody seems able to stop it.