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Amaryllis

(11,423 posts) Fri May 15, 2026, 08:25 PM 12 hrs ago

Dear USA: When You Were Awesome. A letter to America from the boy in western Sydney who was once your biggest fan

https://ifloz.substack.com/p/dear-usa-when-you-were-awesome

I had a really hard time picking out 4 paragraphs. Trust me; just read the whole thing. But have tissues handy because you will need them.

I have posted the end rather than the beginning: .

"But the boy is a man now. And the man is sad. And the country he grew up loving is gone.

We will love what you used to be for as long as we can remember it. And we will mourn what you’ve become for the rest of our lives.

And when you come back to us, if you come back to us, we will be here. Heartbroken. Tired. Older. But still your mates. Because in the end, that is what we are.

We just need you to come back. We miss you."

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Dear USA: When You Were Awesome. A letter to America from the boy in western Sydney who was once your biggest fan (Original Post) Amaryllis 12 hrs ago OP

K&R for a heartbreaking, but necessary post teach1st 10 hrs ago #1

teach1st

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1. K&R for a heartbreaking, but necessary post

Reply to Amaryllis (Original post)

Fri May 15, 2026, 10:21 PM

10 hrs ago

Thanks for posting this, Amaryllis. We should all read the whole thing. Here's another excerpt:

And there’s one more thing I want to say, and it’s to the Democrats.

When you win it back, and you will, you have to actually fucking fix it this time.

You don’t get to go back to the way things were. You don’t get to coast on the relief of him being gone. You don’t get to spend the next 4 years patting yourselves on the back for being the adults in the room.

Because what made him possible was 40 years of neoliberal rot. 40 years of offshoring. 40 years of stagnant wages. 40 years of healthcare bankruptcies. 40 years of pretending trickle-down was real economics and not a hostage note from the donor class. The germination of Trumpism is in the soil you helped till. You and the Republicans both, but you, the Democrats, were supposed to be the bulwark, and you sold out to the same donors and now here we are.

So when you get the keys back, you have to dig the rot out. Tax the bastards. Break up the monopolies. Fund the schools. Cancel the medical debt. Build the housing. Stop pretending Wall Street is the economy and Main Street is just there to applaud.

And throw a shitload of motherfuckers in prison.

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