Today a popular post on Mastodon shows :

Saddam Hussein, 2003. Muammar Gaddafi, 2011. Bashar Al-Assad, Putin, 2024.

Usually we think who the baddies and the heroes are in our enemy thinking.

Talking about baddies, let’s put the USA in the spotlight more often.

• The USA is in the top 5 of countries using the death penalty (Hello ? Are we living in 1300 or 1400 A.C. ? Wake up, it’s 2024 A.C.).
• The USA is a gun nut country, not only inside but also outside the country. They hugely benefit from wars and other conflicts.
• Solving mass shootings at schools in the USA ? Not gonna be solved. The NRA lobby and the mass amount of millionaires and billionaires are in power.
• The current thrive of extreme right ? The current hatred of anything that is “left” or progressive is the aftermath of McCarthyism.  (Come on, USA, stop the embargo of Cuba). And that makes working on alternative societies difficult.

I hope you will come to realize that Western media usually is very USA focused and not rightly so. For example Neo-liberalism by the hands of Reagan and Tatcher was a big mistake with massive suffering. Glorifying the USA (Like “It’s such a cool country”) is not the way forward for a better world.

The USA urgently needs help and healing as a country. It needs to turn away from being a hostile and fear mongering country and wanting to be the “police officer of the world” into a more peaceful country which values all life on Earth, and that includes plants, trees, seas, oceans, ice, as well as human beings, minority groups and so on. And once that process starts going the rest of the world will benefit because the USA has been and still is a very dominant player in this world affecting many lives outside of the USA.

Read more on this topic ?

https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/noam-chomsky-neoliberalism-destroying-democracy Archive : https://archive.md/QGmnt