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.
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.