It's even more insufferable when the "perfect" they refer to is like, the barest minimum acceptable policy positions and the "good" is just actively being an evil bastard and willfully doing significant harm both actively and through negligence, but maybe it's a degree or two less malevolent than what their good friends and brunch-mates in the GOP want to do.
It's like the left is begging them to stop supporting ethnic cleansing and imperial atrocities and they're just like "nope, sorry sweaty, the best we can do is continuing to do all of those things but with dIvErSe MeRiToCrAtIc systems that do them more efficiently, and a PR department that says the right things instead of those same things but slightly meaner!"
A lot of that probably comes with being the superpower. I'll usually hear about how other countries are much worse off and everybody wants to come to the US as a sort of rebuttal. Wasn't the UK in a similar situation until after WWII and being humiliated by the US at Suez? I feel like the US losing its superpower status may be what finally forces mild social democracy into the country.
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It's even more insufferable when the "perfect" they refer to is like, the barest minimum acceptable policy positions and the "good" is just actively being an evil bastard and willfully doing significant harm both actively and through negligence, but maybe it's a degree or two less malevolent than what their good friends and brunch-mates in the GOP want to do.
It's like the left is begging them to stop supporting ethnic cleansing and imperial atrocities and they're just like "nope, sorry sweaty, the best we can do is continuing to do all of those things but with dIvErSe MeRiToCrAtIc systems that do them more efficiently, and a PR department that says the right things instead of those same things but slightly meaner!"
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A lot of that probably comes with being the superpower. I'll usually hear about how other countries are much worse off and everybody wants to come to the US as a sort of rebuttal. Wasn't the UK in a similar situation until after WWII and being humiliated by the US at Suez? I feel like the US losing its superpower status may be what finally forces mild social democracy into the country.
after WWII Attlee did the NHS but Suez wasn't until 1956