To the folks in Europe, the problem with the US goes much, MUCH deeper than Trump or the nearly half of the electorate that voted him into office twice.
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To the folks in Europe, the problem with the US goes much, MUCH deeper than Trump or the nearly half of the electorate that voted him into office twice. That's too simplistic.
Also, be careful, you're telling on yourself. How so?
The problem, the real substance of the problem, is not just the overt #fascism and criminality of the Trump regime and MAGA. The deeper problem is the white supremacy the US middle class. Along with that, the 2 party system, both parties complicit in decades of criminal violence internally and abroad. Then, #neoliberalism / #global capitalism, the core of which is based in the US.
Your trust of the US has long been a mistake and, worse, you've been a partner in #US criminal misconduct that everyone casually calls "Foreign Policy". #Trump, Biden, Obama, Bush, Clinton, Bush, Reagan, Carter... keep going. US foreign policy is rife with grift, violence and war profiteering.
And #Europe has been a partner all along.
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RE: https://masto.ai/@rozeboosje/116074589130930308
To the folks in Europe, the problem with the US goes much, MUCH deeper than Trump or the nearly half of the electorate that voted him into office twice. That's too simplistic.
Also, be careful, you're telling on yourself. How so?
The problem, the real substance of the problem, is not just the overt #fascism and criminality of the Trump regime and MAGA. The deeper problem is the white supremacy the US middle class. Along with that, the 2 party system, both parties complicit in decades of criminal violence internally and abroad. Then, #neoliberalism / #global capitalism, the core of which is based in the US.
Your trust of the US has long been a mistake and, worse, you've been a partner in #US criminal misconduct that everyone casually calls "Foreign Policy". #Trump, Biden, Obama, Bush, Clinton, Bush, Reagan, Carter... keep going. US foreign policy is rife with grift, violence and war profiteering.
And #Europe has been a partner all along.
I've mentioned several times in recent week that I'm currently reading Howard Zinn's A People's History and I not only suggest USians read it, those of you in Europe seem to have bought the lie of the US as a champion of #Democracy and #HumanRights. It's bullshit. Utter bullshit. The US is complicit in decades of #Imperialism with interventions spanning the globe across every President and both parties fully participating.
Let's be fucking clear, the Democratic party is not an opposition party that speaks for Human Rights, democracy, peace, social justice or anything resembling global fairness. The Democratic Party is a party for capitalism responsible for mass murder in Iraq during the 1990s? Sound extreme? Pay attention. Tell me what you know about Clinton's 8 years of Iraq economic sanctions. How many died during those 8 years.
Central America? Yeah, the Democrats, were complicit. Spin the globe and put your finger down randomly. This is not hyperbole.
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I've mentioned several times in recent week that I'm currently reading Howard Zinn's A People's History and I not only suggest USians read it, those of you in Europe seem to have bought the lie of the US as a champion of #Democracy and #HumanRights. It's bullshit. Utter bullshit. The US is complicit in decades of #Imperialism with interventions spanning the globe across every President and both parties fully participating.
Let's be fucking clear, the Democratic party is not an opposition party that speaks for Human Rights, democracy, peace, social justice or anything resembling global fairness. The Democratic Party is a party for capitalism responsible for mass murder in Iraq during the 1990s? Sound extreme? Pay attention. Tell me what you know about Clinton's 8 years of Iraq economic sanctions. How many died during those 8 years.
Central America? Yeah, the Democrats, were complicit. Spin the globe and put your finger down randomly. This is not hyperbole.
My take-away from that book is that the US government is decade after decade of criminality. There should be no attempt to pretend otherwise. What we see with Trump is more of the same and to pretend otherwise is a violation of the truth.
My fellow USians have long turned away from these truths because we're not interested in real equality, justice or democracy. The vast majority of the white middle class of the US have long stood by as passive bystanders to criminality. here don't want to be bothered because they're to busy living their comfortable lives, enjoying the privilege of generational white supremacy. The don't see it or don't want to see it. Maybe a bit of both.
We've got Trump because most here truly don't want to be bothered with the WORK and the RESPONSIBILITY of doing democracy. Most here can barely be bothered to vote. Civic culture here is largely non-existent.
Our inattention and non-participation has consequences. We are now experiencing those consequences.
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