They generally have good opinions on Vietnam, for example, but then will have blind spots about how shitty the US was and the role its troops played in war crimes.
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For example, how people like GDF, they often blame the Israel Lobby, if not Israel, for the U.S support of Israel
As far as I'm concerned, to me, it's blaming the prostitute for the husband's infidelity...
never mind the shared settler-colonial history of both these damned countries, the fact that Israel can be used as a military asset, a la Taiwan, never mind that it is instead the majority-Evangelical white nation-state of Amerikkka who saves Israel, because they see each other in our selves, and so forth
They accept this brainwashing theory that
obscures the real material basis that has historically made even the working poor in the imperial core complicit.
and end with this credo that:
masses everywhere are granted innocence, but robbed of their intelligence
Yeah blaming Isreal for American support of Isreal is another good example, especially because some people will end up showing their whole antisemitic ass selves. "There's a Jewish cabal making the genocidal death cult of evangelicals act out their genocidal death cult fantasies" is diverting blame from whitey to another group. They don't want to accept just how racist their friends and family are.
I hate to get all doomer, but the reason socialism hasn't happened in the Imperial Core is because the majority of white people, especially the so-called "middle class," don't want it. They will choose fascism over communism when given the choice.
Fr
For example, how people like GDF, they often blame the Israel Lobby, if not Israel, for the U.S support of Israel
As far as I'm concerned, to me, it's blaming the prostitute for the husband's infidelity...
never mind the shared settler-colonial history of both these damned countries, the fact that Israel can be used as a military asset, a la Taiwan, never mind that it is instead the majority-Evangelical white nation-state of Amerikkka who saves Israel, because they see each other in our selves, and so forth
They accept this brainwashing theory that
and end with this credo that:
Yeah blaming Isreal for American support of Isreal is another good example, especially because some people will end up showing their whole antisemitic ass selves. "There's a Jewish cabal making the genocidal death cult of evangelicals act out their genocidal death cult fantasies" is diverting blame from whitey to another group. They don't want to accept just how racist their friends and family are.
I hate to get all doomer, but the reason socialism hasn't happened in the Imperial Core is because the majority of white people, especially the so-called "middle class," don't want it. They will choose fascism over communism when given the choice.