For all the failures of the US

Failures? What on earth are you talking about, failures? All of these ventures have been massively successful, they generated untold billions in profits for our oligarchs. You only view them as failures because you still believe for some reason that they were ever supposed to help you at all. The US hasn’t failed it’s people, we’re just not it’s people. It’s you who’s failed to understand this situation.

As usual, the latent American exceptionalist propaganda that’s programmed into all of us from birth keeps you from viewing America as you would view any other nation-state, or one of it’s rivals. We’re told we have the biggest, bestest American moral aspirations and that justifies our actions, but we’re also trained to carve out constant exceptions and excuses for why America has never, ever come close to meeting them. We learn to endlessly justify the atrocities of our own society while collapsing the actions of every other society down to some innate cartoonish quality, usually winkingly implied to be racial. Your worldview can only make sense for more than five seconds if you exclusively grant America some complexity and capacity for “redemption” that you deny to everyone else who America wantonly destroys, as if they aren’t real enough to warrant anything but smug dismissal.

It’s a cartoon view of the world that has led you to cartoon conclusions, its no wonder you’re giving me the Flawed City on a Hill cliche. It’s West Wing shit, not reality. In reality, America has never not been fascist. The fascism just wasn’t evenly distributed, same as everything else.

But as usual, when faced with the most abbreviated possible list of their own crimes, any one of which would make another country irredeemably autocratic in their eyes, the liberal response is to retreat into “it’s complicated.” The final mask of moral cowardice in the face of incontrovertible evil. Colonialism was “complicated”. Chattel slavery was “complicated”. Blair Mountain was “complicated”. Fucking MKULTRA, Tuskegee, Paperclip, leveling Asia with bombs, Iraq and Afghanistan were all “complicated” according to the legions of carefully cultivated, amoral yes-men who’s only role at every historical juncture has been to solemnly shake their heads at the carnage while giving it the thumbs up to continue. Our current pet genocide in Palestine was “complicated” right up until that facade became too hard to maintain, and they just stopped talking about it. Now the US seems intent on starting WW3, and you can bet any amount of money that it will initially be sold as “complicated”, right up until they throw a switch from “it’s complicated” to “exterminate the brutes”, and by that point all the liberals will be fully on board. Just look how quickly, how gleefully so many of them took to calling russian people “orcs”. I want to give you a genuine warning, just from one person to another: you are being sleepwalked into fascism, and its actually not that complicated at all; it’s the worldview that is taught to us which is overly simple.