Linus was a Finn and Tim was a Brit. So Europe can claim those two innovators - their work's turned out to be pretty useful. Don't know where you can stuff Elon, but he's mostly non-US as I recall (3 citizenships?). I'm too lazy to look up whether any of the Bell Lab people weren't natives, and I think the MIT hackers were US-born. But, perhaps, innovation moved worldwide in the 80's or 90's?

That's wishful thinking.

He's talking about cancelling elections, kidnapped a foreign head of state, pardoned thousands of people including the head of one of the largest drug trafficking operations in human history, destroyed countless trade partnerships and is now threatening war with NATO while deploying a gestapo publicly.

Meanwhile, if every single Senate seat in 2026 went to a Democrat, they could still not impeach him. And that's after he gets a full doubling of the time it took for him to do all of the above.

Then, no matter what, the SCOTUS is now fully stacked with his cronies who have lifetime appointments, the executive has been purged, institutions have been destroyed, and government work is now poisoned so recovering them is doomed. And unless we fundamentally restructure the entire model of our national governance, we are at risk of it just happening again every 4 years with increasing escalation now that the actual Nazis know just how easy it is.

Even worse than that, the US people have only gotten worse. They aren't openly going against this and unifying against a dictator. A third of the population is openly calling for dictatorship. So there's absolutely zero sign of this being reversed.

I don't exactly see how this is "amazingly well structured".

I don’t disagree, but I am also worried that Trump and many members of his administration view our political process and constitution as something to be discarded or worked around. He literally said the other day that we shouldn’t even have midterm elections. And the main guy behind Project 2025 believes in pivoting to a ‘post constitutional’ America, whatever that means. I have a genuine fear that all the stability that comes from the Constitution and process that America has, is about to be thrown away. But even if it isn’t, I think other countries view it as not as protective as they previously thought.

Yes, but in the US system, gridlock can prevent a budget being passed for a year or more. In the Parliamentary system, failing to pass a budget results in an election. Also, in a multi-party Parliamentary system, majority governments are less common, fostering compromise rather than dogmatism.

There are a lot of implicit assumptions here. But I hope you're right. And if you're wrong I hope then realize that it is those assumptions that will end up costing all of us - including those that can not vote in US elections - dearly but that it is up to all Americans to fix it.

Is it accidental Dedollarization?

Dedollarisation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dedollarisation

"Vivre WLFI!" (and the Trump USD1 stablecoin)