The last twenty years in American history are among the most shameful, the most disgusting, in its entire history. And this is saying a lot, given the legacy of genocide and slavery.
America has completely gone to the dark side; it has supported corporatism and militarism to the shameless benefit of an oligarchy and has rationalized this depravity on the basis of fear and greed. It has gone full-Orwellian in its machinations. It has turned language and meaning upside down to legitimize monstrous injustice, here and abroad.
We would do well to reflect on the pain and suffering inflicted on millions in the Middle East, North Africa and Latin America in the name of the Terror Wars, and a rapacious perverted democracy.
Why is America so clueless? This is the question.
The answer must lie in the complete failure of American idealism to prevail against the satanic power of greed and violence, what is most unironically referred to as American exceptionalism.
Americans by and large remain unconscious of this most unholy self righteousness, i.e. that it avers a compact with God that excuses everything. That America does not have to apologize for anything.
What other country in the world avers such a claim? That it is spotless before God? The answer is none, no other country makes such a preposterous and insane claim.
We should all pray for the collapse of such a demonic self regard.
