Nowhere GirlTrump would not have been possible if the entire US political system, on a bipartisan basis, had not become a game of elite impunity, if it had not nullified any accountability for political actors, and if it had not repeatedly encouraged imperial military violence under multiple administrations, shrugging off any sense of moral responsibility for the death, chaos, and misery the country unleashed each time. This is the result of a political culture that whines about "purity tests."
This specific situation of a US president threatening to annihilate an entire civilization could not have happened without the American political culture embracing anti-Arab racism and Islamophobia in pursuit of imperial power, resource access, and alignment with an out of control foreign government run by terrorists, fascists, and ethno-nationalist extremists.
Over and over and over again, the US Congress has shrugged at a president making war on a whim and handed him trillions of dollars to feed into a military machine so bloated with cash it can't even properly account for how it's spent.
It has cheered for a fascist who runs an apartheid state, casually makes war on his neighbors, and talks of conquering the entire region in the name of "security" and "defense."
We were told this normal. Mandatory, even. Or that we got what we deserve.
Ludwig Vielfrass@gwynnion Also, Americans too uneducated and incurious about the world around them to know IRANIANS AREN'T ARABS. Few things drove that home to me more than some inbred dipshit shooting a SIKH a few days after 9/11 who owned a convenience store/gas station just a couple miles away from me who I was acquainted with personally.
Claire, The Ultimate Worrier@waitworry @gwynnion you’re probably right, alas. A boy can dream that some additional curiosity would drag along a little more tolerance too, but it may just be my wishful thinking.