Just need to vent, I swear to god the revolutionary potential in America is just not there. So many people just have zero ideological conviction and because we're not subject to the worst of the empire's violence many feel no constant need to fight it, an encampment can end and so many people just go to brunch. The constant need to fight against the empire's propaganda, infiltrated orgs, and most of all the powerful combination of privilege and individualism is so incredibly exhausting. All that feels good to do is sit home, read theory and talk with my closest comrades, I can't be led into another unprepared police raid by people who had just collaborated with the kops, or in an org led ultimately by some undemocratically elected leader, or talk to another "ML" or anarchist white boy that can't even admit racism and imperialism still fuckin exists.
It's not just America. All of the capitalist nations have this vibe, everywhere you go. It's like the moment the USSR collapsed, everyone just gave up
It isn't just America, no, but America is the worst of it. Of course it is - it's the core.
I visit family in America every few years... Americans simply exasperate me in most interactions. It's completely surreal. There is a gulf in politics even between the UK and US. Completely deranged country of total anti-intellectualism.
I was gonna say anti-intellectualism is a key feature of American life, as well as outright narcissism. People with narcissistic personalities cannot improve themselves because they cannot reflect on themselves.
America makes it hard to distinguish innate/early-contracted mental illness from chronically-indiced mental illness.
I fucking hate it, for most of the population, we all act like we're permanently stuck in the 90s.
Take HSR for example, technology that dates in the 60s but a good number of Americans still scoff at it, saying it's technologically impossible.
EDIT: removed a paragraph, this is someone else’s rant, not mine.