It is so fucking tiring to hear that all the problems with the US are inexplicably because of foreign influences. Many people here in this country do not realize that they are just different flavors of right wing rhetoric with some being more overt and extreme than the rest. Just the same xenophobic rhetoric with a different window dressing. There is next to no left-wing political discourse that understands that what ails this country is, in fact, our very culture and economy. The only thing any foreign influences are doing is exacerbating a problem that was already a long-standing issue in this nation.
Like, I get that the US has enemies that would like to see it go down so they can expand. I get that. Yet, while this is true that I don’t want to see those other Imperialist nations expand it is also true that the US itself is no shining beacon of freedom and liberty that the propaganda would like us all to believe it is. It is just another authoritarian, Imperialist nation that exploits the masses both foreign and abroad.
Anytime you try to get to the core of an issue with someone they never seem to break past that point where they must come to terms with America itself is a problem.
In my humble opinion, the oligarchs are the root of our problem - they control media, corrupt politics. Media led to propaganda that has half the country believing an alternate “reality” that is simply lies.
That said, the reason I think we have Trump is largely Russia’s influence.
So really, it’s a combination of internal and external pressures.
It is so fucking tiring to hear that all the problems with the US are inexplicably because of foreign influences. Many people here in this country do not realize that they are just different flavors of right wing rhetoric with some being more overt and extreme than the rest. Just the same xenophobic rhetoric with a different window dressing. There is next to no left-wing political discourse that understands that what ails this country is, in fact, our very culture and economy. The only thing any foreign influences are doing is exacerbating a problem that was already a long-standing issue in this nation.
Like, I get that the US has enemies that would like to see it go down so they can expand. I get that. Yet, while this is true that I don’t want to see those other Imperialist nations expand it is also true that the US itself is no shining beacon of freedom and liberty that the propaganda would like us all to believe it is. It is just another authoritarian, Imperialist nation that exploits the masses both foreign and abroad.
Anytime you try to get to the core of an issue with someone they never seem to break past that point where they must come to terms with America itself is a problem.
In my humble opinion, the oligarchs are the root of our problem - they control media, corrupt politics. Media led to propaganda that has half the country believing an alternate “reality” that is simply lies.
That said, the reason I think we have Trump is largely Russia’s influence.
So really, it’s a combination of internal and external pressures.
You’re the person depicted in the meme