id: lag title: Let America Go previous: ct next: conundrum date: 2025-01-22 ---

## Let America Go

With Trump now solidly re-installed as the president of America, what so many of us have feared has come to pass. In his first days he took the country back years by rolling back all sorts of human rights, regulations, and protections. He has not hit Canada with tariffs yet, though has still expressed that he plans to.

America has been central to the lives of so many people in so many countries. Even if you can avoid thinking about the country itself for a day, so much of what we do has to pass through their economy. Silicon valley owns most large methods of communication, investments all pass through wall street, payments through Visa and Mastercard. The US is the largest buyer of so much of what other countries export.

So we have no choice but to pay attention, and have a lot of our lives and economies dictated by what is going on in the US. I think that is a failing on all of our parts for allowing it to get to this point. Now we rely on an unstable and unpredictable country for international stability. Well I guess that we can predict that things will probably go against any sort of human rights, climate action, worker protections, human rights. So it will likely only get worse.

Whether tariffs are enforced or not the rest of the world needs to let America go as the center of every transaction, policy, or infrastructure. Build stronger ties between the rest of us. Infrastructure and businesses that don't rely on the US.

They are not going to make anything better. More CO2 will get put into the atmosphere, the tech companies will make their experiences worse, I suspect the beautiful natural world in the US is done for. So we all need to be the bigger people in the room. Do better to try and offset the horrible effect that it will have on our planet and our economies. Help each other and the natural world to be as stable as possible through this time.

Open our doors and arms to the wonderful people of the US that are persecuted, or just don't agree with the government and want to leave. Ignore their government's raging and complaining if trade slows or their businesses suffer because we don't use them. In some ways this seems like a tantrum, and sometimes we just need to let it play out and do our best to take care of ourselves and eachother.

I don't have suggestions for exactly what to do, but for the last few days (the first of this new presidency) this is what has been on my mind.