• Addfwyn@lemmygrad.ml
      11·
      4 months ago

      or liberalism, socialism, communism or any number of other -isms.

      I would put money on many of them not really being able to define a democracy or republic. Their level of political awareness is [generally] staggeringly low.

      They pretty much glaze over with anything more complicated than “blue team left, red team right”.

  • DamarcusArt@lemmygrad.ml
    15·
    4 months ago

    I do wonder how this period in history will be looked at in the future. Will this been seen as a strange and incomphrensible state of affairs? That people will wonder how the US and the west could ever have justified their behaviour? Will this just been seen as the end period of the “white man’s burden” era? Will there be people who fall for the propaganda centuries or even millennia from now, the same way we still have people falling for propaganda pushed out by the ancient Romans?

    • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmygrad.mlOP
      12·
      4 months ago

      I anticipate that the west will continue to cling to its mythology while the rest of humanity advances. As the west becomes increasingly isolated and xenophobic, its economic decline is all but certain without continued exploitation of the global South. It will be remembered as an empire that dominated the world for a brief moment.

  • amemorablename@lemmygrad.ml
    7·
    4 months ago

    I made the mistake of reading a reddit thread on the politics subreddit about Biden giving a speech to step down. The full-throated, salivating vapid patriotism brain was hard to read, to say the least. People calling him a great leader and such things. Acting like it was some amazing act simply for him to choose to step down. One of the worst people in modern US history, his political career. The inability to have any standards at all drives me up the wall. It’s like the US electoral version of what I see on some game forums, where people will praise and defend anything a game company does because it’s their favorite game.

    Like even setting aside the whole genocide thing, not that it should be set aside, but pretending for a second that it wasn’t that obvious the issues with these presidents. People still will do this “lesser evil” thing with no standards. Like my god, what about good things? Um, are you okay in there? How do you still think this is a democracy, republic, whatever (some form of government where you have choice) while believing your options are limited to evil and evil?

    US thought is exhausting.