America Without Halt – Chronicle of a Democracy in Collapse

What once stood as a beacon of freedom is sinking into a whirlpool of authoritarianism and institutional madness. The United States, that self-proclaimed city on a hill, is stumbling into a darkness that even its fiercest critics could hardly have imagined.

Barack Obama, the man who once preached “Yes We Can,” now desperately warns against the militarization of the homeland. When federal troops no longer fight only on distant fronts but patrol on American soil, when the right to due process becomes an empty phrase, then the republic does not die with a bang but slowly suffocates in its own paranoia. The erosion Obama speaks of is no longer gradual - it is a raging torrent undermining the very foundations of the Constitution.

The game with marked cards

The dismissal of Robert Primus from the Surface Transportation Board exposes the naked brutality of power politics. A late-night email, a termination with a click - this is how decisions are made today that will determine the largest railroad merger in history. Primus’ desperate attempt to cling to his chair until he is physically removed feels like a scene from a Kafka novel, except this is the bitter reality of America in 2025.

Meanwhile, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. juggles public health like a drunken clown with chainsaws. The man whom Senator Ossoff aptly called a “quack” praised CDC director Susan Monarez in the highest tones just weeks ago - only to then drop her like a hot potato. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, once the bulwark against pandemics and disease, are undergoing a purge that recalls the darkest times. Scientists are fleeing like rats from a sinking ship, their red line crossed, their scientific integrity no longer negotiable.

The deportees of Kigali

But the absolute low point of this American tragedy reveals itself in a deal so perverse that even George Orwell would have blushed: The United States, this land of unlimited opportunity, sends its unwanted migrants to Rwanda. Seven people whose only crime was to dream of the American dream end up in a country with which they have no connection. Rwanda, South Sudan, Eswatini - the new axis of American shame. It is as if people were being shipped like packages with no known address, so someone just slaps on a random label and hopes no one complains.

The Rwandan government speaks of “care by UN representatives,” as if this were a humanitarian act and not the outsourcing variant of human cruelty. Three of the deportees want to return to their home countries - countries they fled because death or persecution awaited them there. The other four are supposed to “build a life” in Rwanda, a country whose language they do not speak, whose culture they do not know, whose soil has never been their home.

The circus goes on

While Wisconsin is set to bleed more than 284 million dollars for Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill” - a name that in its infantile vanity would almost be funny if it were not so tragic - the president is already planning his next coup: a party convention before the midterms, “it has never been done before!” he boasts on Truth Social, that platform whose name sounds like a cruel joke. Marco Rubio, the secretary of state, meanwhile speaks of “openness” to nuclear negotiations with Iran while at the same time welcoming the harshest sanctions - diplomatic schizophrenia as raison d’état. It is this simultaneity of threat and embrace, of destruction and construction, that plunges America into a state of permanent confusion.

The United States is no longer the beacon of democracy. It has become a warning sign of what happens when institutions rot, when power becomes a drug, and when a people forget that freedom is not a given. While CDC scientists clear out their offices and migrants are dumped in African countries, while the military marches on domestic soil and party politics degenerates into a reality show, the American dream does not die with a dramatic finale. It suffocates slowly, ignobly, in a swamp of lies, corruption, and institutional neglect.

America, you were once great. Now you are nothing more than a warning to the rest of the world.

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