The entire US Empire has become guys giving their friends’ nephews jobs. And those nephews giving their friends’ nephews jobs. Now we’re three generations in and its nephews all the way down.
Every single country on Earth has run like this since States began.
What happened in America is that the nephews switched from being Exeter alumni and Ivy Leaguers to the "dumb" reactionary hicks - first southern local gentry under Bush, then loud, crass ethnics like Rudy Giuliani and Scaramucci under Trump. Historically, the type of ghouls you see in the modern GOP would have been staunchly anti-war, unless it was to capture booty or more land for their plantations (adjacent land, not some foreign land). It was the progressives who were determined to spread the light of American values world wide.
Vietnam really did a number on the progressive movements ability to drum up consent for war, but Biden and "Blue MAGA" have been fixing that.
Every single country on Earth has run like this since States began.
What happened in America is that the nephews switched from being Exeter alumni and Ivy Leaguers to the "dumb" reactionary hicks - first southern local gentry under Bush, then loud, crass ethnics like Rudy Giuliani and Scaramucci under Trump. Historically, the type of ghouls you see in the modern GOP would have been staunchly anti-war, unless it was to capture booty or more land for their plantations (adjacent land, not some foreign land). It was the progressives who were determined to spread the light of American values world wide.
Vietnam really did a number on the progressive movements ability to drum up consent for war, but Biden and "Blue MAGA" have been fixing that.