Their arrogance is precisely why I don’t think they’ll take note and the ignorance of their voting base is precisely why I think they’re not incentivized to do anything differently than they have done since the end of the American Civil War. There’s no personal accountability internally or externally for their behavior. When provocations lead to violence it’s not them or their tribe that pays the price. Religious fundamentalism reinforces a belief that the believer is perpetually a victim regardless of whether their faith is the dominant power because the continued existence of any belief and anyone who believes differently is an affront. Bullies don’t just give up because they grow tired of it. Your best hope for a (relative) peaceful end to American aggression abroad is to support efforts in your nation to make the US a pariah and begin dismantling their financial power within those nations. Or, if willing, accept that as the elite are beyond the reach of the average American gun owner, it’ll take an outside force (or a very well equipped internal force backed by external support) to forcibly remove them, then either work to eliminate the power of middle class Christian nationalists or stand back and allow them and the antifascists duke it out. If you want an end to American imperialism you’re going to have to get it to turn on itself. Which it kind of is, but without some outside assistance in some form I do believe it’s just going to continue to lash out as it can.
Their arrogance is precisely why I don’t think they’ll take note and the ignorance of their voting base is precisely why I think they’re not incentivized to do anything differently than they have done since the end of the American Civil War. There’s no personal accountability internally or externally for their behavior. When provocations lead to violence it’s not them or their tribe that pays the price. Religious fundamentalism reinforces a belief that the believer is perpetually a victim regardless of whether their faith is the dominant power because the continued existence of any belief and anyone who believes differently is an affront. Bullies don’t just give up because they grow tired of it. Your best hope for a (relative) peaceful end to American aggression abroad is to support efforts in your nation to make the US a pariah and begin dismantling their financial power within those nations. Or, if willing, accept that as the elite are beyond the reach of the average American gun owner, it’ll take an outside force (or a very well equipped internal force backed by external support) to forcibly remove them, then either work to eliminate the power of middle class Christian nationalists or stand back and allow them and the antifascists duke it out. If you want an end to American imperialism you’re going to have to get it to turn on itself. Which it kind of is, but without some outside assistance in some form I do believe it’s just going to continue to lash out as it can.