An intriguing analysis. Can't find a point I disagree with - for what it's worth, given that I don't live in the US.
I tried talking about this very thing with many Americans and also many in the UK who are equally enabling colonial power structures, tied to the false A and B system out of fear. Sadly, it's regularly to no avail. So many people could read this essay thrice and still tell you "that's all good, but the reality is we have to vote Biden to prevent Trump getting in power" or in the UK version, "we must vote Labour to prevent another Tory mandate."
I guess "you can take a horse to the water, but you can't make it drink" is a timeless truth. For the majority, digging themselves out of perpetuating the status quo is an impossible mission.
While I'm only vaguely familiar with the UK parliamentary system, we can all recognize neoliberalism and imperialism for what it is! The victims of Western imperialism, including Palestinians leading the "uncommitted" movement in American Democratic primaries, are infuriated by the privileged, patronizing "blue no matter who" argument: when your children are being bombed there is no daylight between liberal and conservative imperialism. It is a distinction without a difference. The beautiful thing about the inevitable fall of empires is that they don't depend on everyone drinking the water.
I'm forced to be familiar with it given that I live in British-occupied north of Ireland, one of the worlds greatest examples of how the normalisation of colonisation works its magic.
And indeed, those running in circles in panic of the non-existent choice between A and B seems to be forgetting that all empires fall. Absolutely all of them since the dawn of (human) time have fallen, no exception, with most power structures eating themselves alive after a couple of hundreds of years at best. This is inevitable no matter how much the current capitalist system (which is only in place for an incredibly short time in the grand scheme of history) is trying to sell us the idea that a different system isn't possible and workable. What we have now is demonstrably not workable, full stop.
I spent some time in Belfast back when I was in college! I was in a very different political place back then, but had some life-changing conversations.
An intriguing analysis. Can't find a point I disagree with - for what it's worth, given that I don't live in the US.
I tried talking about this very thing with many Americans and also many in the UK who are equally enabling colonial power structures, tied to the false A and B system out of fear. Sadly, it's regularly to no avail. So many people could read this essay thrice and still tell you "that's all good, but the reality is we have to vote Biden to prevent Trump getting in power" or in the UK version, "we must vote Labour to prevent another Tory mandate."
I guess "you can take a horse to the water, but you can't make it drink" is a timeless truth. For the majority, digging themselves out of perpetuating the status quo is an impossible mission.
While I'm only vaguely familiar with the UK parliamentary system, we can all recognize neoliberalism and imperialism for what it is! The victims of Western imperialism, including Palestinians leading the "uncommitted" movement in American Democratic primaries, are infuriated by the privileged, patronizing "blue no matter who" argument: when your children are being bombed there is no daylight between liberal and conservative imperialism. It is a distinction without a difference. The beautiful thing about the inevitable fall of empires is that they don't depend on everyone drinking the water.
I'm forced to be familiar with it given that I live in British-occupied north of Ireland, one of the worlds greatest examples of how the normalisation of colonisation works its magic.
And indeed, those running in circles in panic of the non-existent choice between A and B seems to be forgetting that all empires fall. Absolutely all of them since the dawn of (human) time have fallen, no exception, with most power structures eating themselves alive after a couple of hundreds of years at best. This is inevitable no matter how much the current capitalist system (which is only in place for an incredibly short time in the grand scheme of history) is trying to sell us the idea that a different system isn't possible and workable. What we have now is demonstrably not workable, full stop.
I spent some time in Belfast back when I was in college! I was in a very different political place back then, but had some life-changing conversations.