re-read my comment. I'm saying that if your political philosophy begins with "There is a country USA, and a priori it is inherently bad due to its being America", its obviously utter shit. It should be something like "[...] is bad" Imperialism causes [...]", "America is doing Imperialism", "Thus America is bad" Personally, I've been trying to restrict making value-judgements to actions rather than people/things, so I'd say it as "America doing imperialism is bad".
America has also done anti-imperialist actions as well, (Suez Canal crisis for the rare example). If your ideology casts one group as purely evil villains that can do no good, its probably about as mature as a Superhero movie.
re-read my comment. I'm saying that if your political philosophy begins with "There is a country USA, and a priori it is inherently bad due to its being America", its obviously utter shit. It should be something like "[...] is bad" Imperialism causes [...]", "America is doing Imperialism", "Thus America is bad" Personally, I've been trying to restrict making value-judgements to actions rather than people/things, so I'd say it as "America doing imperialism is bad".
America has also done anti-imperialist actions as well, (Suez Canal crisis for the rare example). If your ideology casts one group as purely evil villains that can do no good, its probably about as mature as a Superhero movie.