For many of us overseas, this is seen as the US pulling back the curtain, yes. These ideas have been couched rhetoric for decades, mostly from Reagan or even earlier. The current figures just don’t know how to be subtle about it. Or perhaps, feel confident enough to believe nobody will stop them.
This follows with the people. We’ve seen Americans make excuses for harmful policy for decades already, preoccupied with which individual social tribes to blame. I think many were (or are) hoping this extremity would prompt revolt or rebellion, but are ultimately not surprised that most Americans have simply become even more divided and hostile. Were begging you to stop it. Most of us are already convinced you won’t.
The groundwork to make men/women left/right native/expat worker/boss Chrstian/Muslim etc blame each other for the suffering in their own communities has been laid for a long time and is now self-sustaining and making uniting against class difficult, if not impossible.
The ridiculous military funding also makes Americans that do want to resist feel too afraid to do so. You were told it would protect you from the other social tribes, but the tribes being blamed were chosen almost exclusively for the elite’s financial or global power reasons.
For many of us overseas, this is seen as the US pulling back the curtain, yes. These ideas have been couched rhetoric for decades, mostly from Reagan or even earlier. The current figures just don’t know how to be subtle about it. Or perhaps, feel confident enough to believe nobody will stop them.
This follows with the people. We’ve seen Americans make excuses for harmful policy for decades already, preoccupied with which individual social tribes to blame. I think many were (or are) hoping this extremity would prompt revolt or rebellion, but are ultimately not surprised that most Americans have simply become even more divided and hostile. Were begging you to stop it. Most of us are already convinced you won’t.
The groundwork to make men/women left/right native/expat worker/boss Chrstian/Muslim etc blame each other for the suffering in their own communities has been laid for a long time and is now self-sustaining and making uniting against class difficult, if not impossible.
The ridiculous military funding also makes Americans that do want to resist feel too afraid to do so. You were told it would protect you from the other social tribes, but the tribes being blamed were chosen almost exclusively for the elite’s financial or global power reasons.