Europe is full of bigoted, racist leaders. Countries like Poland has been met with plenty of anti-Polish sentiment with their anti-LGBT+ zones and their attempted reform of the legal system. Hungary, as a country, is disliked by many Europeans for being Putin’s little pawn. Most of Europe’s governments are either assholes or hypocrites, letting Gaza be genocided while aiding Ukraine in its defence against Russia.
Most Anti-American sentiment is mostly a response to a) over half your country being stupid enough to vote Trump over literally anybody else and b) the trade wars the government you elected have started and with a bit of c) the whole Ukraine situation.
I don’t really get what protesting is supposed to do. The people voted, the majority of the people that bothered to show up proved to be idiots, so idiots rule the country. I haven’t seen any proof of foul play during the election, this is what the people wanted. You should protest against the supposed checks and balances that should be stopping Trump, but protesting Trump itself is silly. He and his idiotic policies are what the voters wanted to happen.
There was a time and a place to stop Trump, and it was at the voting booth. Not enough people showed up to make a difference. Either because some people didn’t bother to vote, or because on average, Americans really do support this bullshit.
If you’re going to take action, explain to your fellow people how they have been misled, or if why they’re wrong if they stand behind the shit your government does. When prices rise in the coming few months, explain to your Trump loving family that this is the results of tariffs. Don’t gloat, don’t say things like “I told you so”, let them protect their pride by telling them they’ve been lied to. Many of them have been.
If you somehow succesfully sabotage the system into blocking Trump through protests, the Trump fan club is going to use those exact tactics in four years time when the obligatory change of the guard puts some other fossil in charge.
I’m all in favour of increasing voter turnout and improving election reliability (making voting days holidays, redesigning the system that allows for gerrymandering, voted ID laws with easily accessible ID, removing the requirement to register to vote at all) but your misinterpretation of how democracy works isn’t helping anyone.
Elections, unless mandatory, are a sample of the general population. In this case, the sample size is more than large enough to represent all citizens. Voter turnout during the US presidential election was the one-but-highest turnout since 1976. If anything, this has been one of the most representative elections in your country’s history. That turned into a win for the idiots, but that’s the risk of an increased voter turnout.
Most democratic countries don’t implement mandatory voting, and even the ones that do implement it often come up with less than 100% turnout. Australia only ends up around 90% of the eligible voters despite the 20/50/75 $AUD fine associated with failing to show up to vote.
Most people not showing up doesn’t mean a sample taken from across the population is bad. By that argument, every election in the history of the United States has been completely meaningless, because nobody has ever achieved 100% voter turnout, except for maybe in some suspicious elections in Soviet Russia and North Korea. Your country would not have had a legitimate government since the introduction of democracy, or ever if you only accept democracy.
You can call me names if you want, but it won’t change the fact that the problems both the US and Europe are facing are bigger than “oops we accidentally didn’t let enough people vote”. Being in denial about the baffling amount of people actually supporting Trump is exactly how we got here in the first place.