I can and I did 😎. In terms of my contribution in the political sphere, you're right and I understand that it makes more sense to work towards improving the living standards of those suffering around me, so I do try to do that. I don't think I have said otherwise although I was not as clear about that as I should have been at first (I agree with Joy Gray in this thread and in lots else). Thats good politics. Truth is though repairing the damage done to the people of the world by America is more important to me and should be more important to everyone. When my teeth fall out and my fingernails bleed and I lose my mind from lack of health insurance I will still believe that. If I starve I will believe that. If I thought I could advance that end by dying I would die. If I could take from every American a single eye and for each one restore sight to anyone she blinded, I would ask to take two. If I could burn down one American house to unbomb one Iraqi house, I would burn until each bomb used to level that country was undropped and I would probably burn some more for good measure.

We can narrow it though to bring it down from the lofty height of 'destroying America' to something more reasonable but just as impossible. Lets say there was a plan for reparations that could actually address the lasting effects of slavery in America, more or less completely. If it weren't contradictory to that end (since robust social programs do address racial inequity) I would trade M4A for that, I would trade Social Security, I would trade the interstate system, I would trade the New Deal, I would trade Amtrak. I would doom every American to a century of squalor or of foreign domination, an era of national shame and insecurity, if in doing it slavery could somehow be undone. In fact that it will help to achieve that even a little is a huge reason for me in supporting M4A in the first place.

Of course, nothing is so simple. There is no such choice actually being presented. And I know some of my reasons for feeling this way are irrational. I do think there are rational reasons to feel like this - how safe will M4A be while the evil empire fueled by and built on a foundation of suffering is still responsible for administrating it, for example - but it is my moral stance anyway, and I will tell you two reasons why: M4A would only help Americans whereas reparations for America's crimes would help the health of most of the world, to say nothing of sparing future injury; also, (although I hate pokemon-type internet ideology labeling so please forgive me) because I consider myself a communist and not a socdem lmao