imperialism dwarfs any domestic concerns you have
if you disagree with this then youve got american leftist brainworms
people who have shitty or bizarre domestic policy opinions but are active anti-imperialists, not in the fake "no more intervention because brown people dont deserve my help" libertarian fasc way, but in the real "hey the us empire should end" way and actually take steps to disrupt that empire are more important and helpful to the world than people who have demsoc or even leftist domestic opinions but standard or null foreign policy (this includes AOC etc)
u can do both, but one of them is required to even be passably useful
This take is not particularly useful, because the two spheres are inextricably linked. Any anti-imperialist project in the U.S. will depend on the participation and leadership of U.S. minorities and recent immigrants, whose political potential is currently stifled by the ruthless domestic regime. Even succ dem reforms like universal healthcare, even executed by people like AOC, would substantially lessen the pressure, increasing our ability to build the international working class coalitions necessary to dismantle the empire. Ilhan Omar is one of the best in Congress on anti-imperialism (very faint praise), but she didn't get elected on that, and it's no coincidence that she is an immigrant.
I also don't think this happens very often. The same solidarity that leads people to good domestic politics often leads them to good international politics. I'd love some examples of the kind of people with "shitty or bizarre domestic policy opinions" who you feel are worth defending by this logic.
i agree with everything except the "i dont think this happens very often"
bernie sanders has garbage foreign policy as does aoc and basically everyone except ilhan omar who barely is ok
we just think they're great by contrast to everyone else, but their foreign policy scope is still trash
as for regular people, you'd be amazed how many comfortable "progressives" there are who think couping venezuala or HK is a good idea, or that we should sincerely consider invading china or whatever
go back to the iraq war days and check out how many "progressives" supported war
we killed like 2 million people there
but as for the idea that these two things are linked, i totally agree. As long as youre not suggesting that we cant stop empire until the imperial core has no homelessness, then yes i agree with you. These spheres are linked.