Three people who changed my view on America.

Until a few months ago, I still believed that there was still hope for the United States and that, despite its many faults and all the bad things it's done in the past, America could learn from it's past and become a better country. But that's all over now. Not just because of Donald Trump stealing the election, but because Trump is the manifestation of everything that America has always been for the past 500 years. And before you say anything, while the United States itself has only existed for almost 250 years, I'm referring to when Christopher Columbus first "discovered" the continent in 1492. Of course, Columbus didn't discover anything since A)The Indigenous Peoples had lived there for at least 15 millenia and B)Leif Erikson supposedly discovered it 500 years before Columbus. His voyages did, however, open the way for European exploration and colonization of the Americas. And that's when it all started to go to Hell. Because well know what happened afterward. 

Anyway, enough about that asshole. After Trump got re-elected, he wanted to revive the idea of Manifest Destiny and colonization by threatening to annex sovereign nations such as Canada, Mexico and Greenland. Hell, he probably would support reviving the genocide of the remaining native populations if he could. So truthfully, this is how the United States always has been and always will be. And since then, I've started reading works of three men who have radically altered my opinion of the United States and make me wish the country never existed. Ironically, two of them were born in the USA. Those three men are:

Ward Churchill: A former professor of ethnic studies at the University of Colorado at Boulder, author and political activist. Much of Churchill's work focuses on the historical treatment of political dissenters and Native Americans by the United States government, and he expresses controversial views in a direct, often confrontational style. He is strongly opposed to America's foreign policy, and openly and rightly blames the attacks of September 11, 2001 on American interference in Middle East affairs, as expressed in his book "On the Justice of Roosting Chickens", where in one chapter, he described the role of financial workers at the World Trade Center as an "ongoing genocidal American imperialism" comparable to the role played by Adolf Eichmann in organizing the Holocaust, and some of them may actually have deserved to die. That is somewhat debatable, but there is no denying America has been imperialist and violent before it even existed, as evidenced by Churchill's many writings about the genocide of the Native Americans, slavery, and the massacres carried about by the the US Government both at home and abroad, such as the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the firebombings of Tokyo and Dresden, the massacres at No Gun Ri, My Lai, Wounded Knee, the invasion of the Phillipenes and the abuse of prisoners of war at Gitmo and Abu Ghraib. 

Sayyid Qutb: An Egyptian political theorist and revolutionary who was a leading member of the Muslim Brotherhood. He wrote at least 24 books and Qutb is best known in the Muslim world for his work on what he believed to be the social and political role of Islam, particularly in his books Social Justice and Milestones. In the late 1940s, Qutb spent two years going to universities in the United States at Wilson Teachers' College in Washington, D.C., what's now the now the University of Northern Colorado, and Stanford University in California. On his return to Egypt, Qutb in 1951 published "The America that I Have Seen", where he became explicitly critical of things he had observed in the United States: it's love of materialism, capitalism, superficiality in conversations and friendships, support for the new Israeli state, lack of artistic feeling, love of sports, and obsession with violence and sexual pleasures. He hoped to prevent this kind of culture from spreading in Egypt and the Middle East, but he was not completely successful, as Egypt had a pro-western Government. Of course, this kind of culture has taken over the world in some ways, especially in our former World War II enemies such as Japan and Germany. In 1952, Egypt's Government would be overthrown by the more nationalist Gamal Adel Nasser, but he opposed Qutb and the Muslim Brotherhood because of some of his more extreme views, which I disapprove of, such as his support for violent jihad and creating theocratic Government along Islamist lines. Qutb was eventually executed in 1966 for attempting to assassinate Nasser. But Qutb's legacy would endure and one of his more ardent supporters was Ayman Al-Zawahiri, who later mentored Osama bin Laden and created Al-Qaeda, which is more popular than the United States in 2025. While I don't defend terrorism, the USA is a bigger terrorist in more ways than one. 

Theodore N. Kaufman: This one is more obscure, but he has also influenced my views in some way. In fact, Kaufman is my profile pic. Theodore N. Kaufman was a Jewish American businessman and writer from New York City, who was a radical intent on preventing American involvement in future wars in Europe. In 1939, he published pamphlets as "chairman of the American Federation of Peace" that argued that Americans should be sterilized so that their children will no longer have to fight in foreign wars. Then, in 1941, before the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor, bringing the US into World War II, he self-published his own book titled "Germany Must Perish!", where he stated, since Germany will always be militaristic, they could never be trusted to not elect someone like Adolf Hitler and were responsible for both World Wars, that the German nation no longer had a right to exist. Upon Germany's defeat, he called for the sterilization of all German men under 65 and the sterilization of most German women under 45 and called for the distribution of Germany's lands among the neighboring countries; for example, Berlin would be given to Poland, Munich would become part of France, Dresden would join Czechoslovakia and Hamburg would be part of the Netherlands. Needless to say, none of this happened and Germany ultimately repented and thankfully, rebuked Hitler and Nazism. I think Kaufman had the right idea, but it was the wrong country. I actually think that the United States, as the biggest aggressor in the world and the greatest threat to peace, especially under Donald Trump, should be the nation that ceases to exist. Even when Trump is gone, the damage to the country's prestige is beyond repair and not even electing a Democrat like Bernie Sanders, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Pete Buttigieg or Cory Booker could redeem the USA. Heck, even if the Republicans never took control of the Government again, there's always a chance, infinitesimal it may be, that another Donald Trump could be President again. Therefore, that's why I believe the United States cannot be allowed to continue to exist as a nation. That does not mean I wish physical harm to come to the American people, although I think the MAGAtards should probably be sterilized, but I think the United States needs to divided up into smaller nations a la the Soviet Union. Plus, it's pretty clear Americans hate each other nowadays, so it would be best for the American people if we were divided up between liberals and regressives(I refuse to call Republicans conservative since they don't want to conserve anything, but want to move the country backwards, hence they're regressive.) Therefore, I think liberals should just separate from the MAGAtards and run their own Canadaian and European-style nations while the MAGAtards can live in the past in the Neo-Confederate States of Jesusland.

Anyway, I'm done ranting.