Surveys show Americans believe foreign aid is 25% of the federal budget. It’s less than 1%. The public is misinformed about what the US spends money on, which creates an abstract desire to “cut spending” that’s extremely difficult to translate into policy. https://www.brookings.edu/policy2020/votervital/what-every-american-should-know-about-us-foreign-aid/
I wanna do the "Americans are stupid" spheel but this is a direct result of consent manufacturing. No way Americans would think about foreign aid if propaganda machine wasn't constantly pushing xenophobia.
gotta love the propaganda machine deciding to destroy American finance imperialism and the IMF because the bourgoise thought it seemed to much like helping people
I wanna do the "Americans are stupid" spheel but this is a direct result of consent manufacturing. No way Americans would think about foreign aid if propaganda machine wasn't constantly pushing xenophobia.
gotta love the propaganda machine deciding to destroy American finance imperialism and the IMF because the bourgoise thought it seemed to much like helping people