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Originally Posted by GypsyGoth
I get it, both of you hate america and americans. However I don't think you should take it out on them just because of bad choices that Obama makes. Isn't that like being annoyed at the syrian people for bad choices their leader is making?
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No, I don't hate Americans on the contary I actually think Americans are in general friendlier than Europeans. Having spent time in the US what struck me the most was the slightly warped worldview they seem to have. They see the world very much through a rosy US prism. They seem to believe the hype re their nation being the absolute leader on so many fronts a vanguard for peace love, freedom and benevolence . They are to a degree politically naive and insular due lack of travel to foreign countries which would broaden their minds.
They do not see what their Govt does in their name ie 800 military bases around the world , over a Trillion dollars a year spent on defence, more than all the other nations of the world combined. The flouting of the UN, the ease with which they start one illegal war after the next to fulfill a corporate Military industrial elite's wishes . The blind allegiance to Israel and the shameful support of their murderous policies.
This is just a glimpse of what the US does but the general US public cannot see this instead seeing their politics wrapped in a bouquet of patriotism. They have no idea of the vast array of arrogant, self serving , immoral and sometimes illegal policies being pursued in their name.
I wish the general US public would wake up to all of this and reclaim their Govt and like their constitution states " by the people for the people"....