Comment by zarathustreal

This is hilarious. Should we stop criticizing all politicians because we don't know them personally? These are not just some guys, you know. These are the most powerful people in the world. You will be affected - everyone has a 'real stake' in what they do. Frankly, the amount of scrutiny and consequences of said scrutiny that powerful people receive are at all-time lows - there should be more.

For Trump specifically, almost everyone is affected. Even if you're not an American, all the war-starting, economy-wrecking, relationship-souring, international-meddling 'work' of the US is affecting you. Unless maybe if you're from North Korea.

There's nothing that better exemplifies the way how Trump supporters specifically and Americans in general have checked out from everyone else's reality than this comment. In the eyes of most of the Western world, the time for debate was 10 years ago. We're no longer in a land of hypotheticals and 'virtue signaling' that far-rightists smugly talked about back then. They are already ruling us - the world has already tasted the far-right's medicine, and many people are enraged as things keep becoming more bleak. Suggesting that countries stop enforcing US IP would be a ludicrous suggestion in 2016 that would be laughed out of the room as terminally online daydreaming. In 2026, this starts seeming like a real source of possible leverage, exerting power over a nation that thinks it can dictate the rules of the world in perpetuity. I suggest you update your worldview a bit before this or something equally extreme lands on some actual politician's desk. A few more years of this and there will no longer be any good will left from the rest of the world.