Listening to
the SOTU, there was for certain many cringewothy moments. Certainly
not the least of which, was President Trump's comments that he wants
immigrants coming into the country, but only the “legal” ones.
This administrations' behavior on the southern border, separating
children from their parents, however, throws this statement out the
proverbial window. In his first year in office, Trump instigated, by
Executive Order, the Muslim Ban. Interesting that all the countries
he banned are countries the US are currently bombing the shit out
of... just might have something to do with it. The hypocrisy of any
government, really knows no bounds, yet the Trump regime's hypocrisy
has a different stink to it. The Trump regime and specifically Trump,
are currently infamous for their outright lies and corruption.
During Trump's
entire speech, a term continued popping up in my mind: American
Exceptionalism. The 'ideology' actually has its roots as far back as
1941. Ironically, it was Joseph Stalin who coined the idea after a
few leading communists in the United States broke from his way to a
more Trotsky centered notion of socialism. Later the term was picked
up by the Reagan administration during the fall of the Soviet Union.
However, the idea has been bandied about by both the GOP and the DNC
for their own political agendas since then. Generally the term
describes the US as the born exception on the planet, to ensure
“freedom and democracy' remain and flourish around the world. The
Bush regime used this notion heavily post 9/11, placing the US as the
“city of light on the hill”, a beacon of democracy, policing the
planet to America's way or the highway, so to speak. This ideology
has been the underlining principle as justification for regime change
in other sovereign nations around the planet. It is currently being
pushed down our throats in regard to Venezuela, for the propagandist
states the “people need to be free from Maduro and the tyranny of
socialism”.
This is
absolute propaganda as 80% of the people want the US to butt out of
their country. “Yankee Go Home”, they are shouting...yet the
American Exceptionalists want 'regime change' to “uphold democracy
around the world'”. As a people, haven't we learned anything about
the regime change activities of the United States? Afghanistan, Iraq,
Syria, Somalia, and lastly, Libya, the now murky haven for rogue
terrorists and the center for the world's largest slave trade
activities. So much for democracy.
What we should
have learned from the US's perpetual wars in these countries since
9/11, is not that we are “freeing people” or “paving the way
for democracy” but raping and pillaging their natural resources,
murdering thousands of innocent civilians, and creating dystopian
states. Once we realize that this American Exceptionalism is an
excuse to bomb and steal from other nations, and not instigating
freedom for the peoples of said countries, perhaps these wars will
finally stop.
It's the greatest
of ironies that the same people who have been screaming about Russian
interference in the 2016 presidential election, are advocating the
usurpation of a democratically elected government in Venezuela...
American
Exceptionalism is the height of hypocrisy, and essentially a lie.
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