The fantasy that this is all entirely the fault of outside influence gives everyone a nice, comfortable “out” for not having to get involved or feel like they’re not doing enough.
Yeah. I get uncomfortable shades of the “stab in the back” propaganda from interwar Germany, where the Nazis blamed everyone except Germany for World War I. If the Americans can’t understand that they’ve done this to themselves then they’re never going to recover from it.
The fantasy that this is all entirely the fault of outside influence gives everyone a nice, comfortable “out” for not having to get involved or feel like they’re not doing enough.
They’re not doing enough.
Yeah. I get uncomfortable shades of the “stab in the back” propaganda from interwar Germany, where the Nazis blamed everyone except Germany for World War I. If the Americans can’t understand that they’ve done this to themselves then they’re never going to recover from it.