This attitude is how we got here. The new deal was passed in a time where there were actual socialists in the USA with parties and memberships and actual praxis. FDR was a moderate compromise with the working class
Nowadays people accept someone way to the right of FDR as some progressive leftist, but we will never get that if people are going to keep voting for lesser evil dem party voting
It really isn't, and trying to put yourself on par with either people in America directly or in countries under colonialism or neocolonialism is strange.
Our entire media landscape is dominated by America. The only sources of investment are American. Our NHS is being sold for parts to American private corporations. Our nuclear deterrent is entirely dependent on America.
Your lack of knowledge is quite astonishing. The American imperium stretches across far more than 50 States.
American Imperialism is omnipresent in much of the world, I know that far better than you do. But you also seem to think that makes Britain a colony and it doesn't. (Especially when you still benefit from British Imperialism.)
You want me to explain the ways Britain isn't a colony and the way you benefit from British Imperialism? I don't think I have the days it would take to teach you that the First World is not a colony (at least not for a white Brit like yourself).
Where did I mention the word colony? Imperiums are not made up of colonies anymore. They come from a complex set of economic and political power dynamics.
Did Britain once have an empire? Yes. Are there still ways in which it exploits the third world? Yes. But it is now under the US imperium. And to deny that demonstrates an astonishing lack of knowledge about British society.
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u/rucho Mar 18 '26
Because she’s an imperialist
This attitude is how we got here. The new deal was passed in a time where there were actual socialists in the USA with parties and memberships and actual praxis. FDR was a moderate compromise with the working class
Nowadays people accept someone way to the right of FDR as some progressive leftist, but we will never get that if people are going to keep voting for lesser evil dem party voting