It’s going to have to hit $5/gallon in the Midwest and Southern US before we really see much reaction from the USians, and it would have to be sustained. There will be plenty of grumbling before we hit that point, but no action. That’s my prediction anyway.
Of course. I wasn’t suggesting otherwise. I just hope CIA propaganda loses any appeal it may have outside of the imperial core. As for inside the core, it’s hard for me not to feel ‘doomer’ about the state of the working class. I think there would have to be a sudden, extreme change in material conditions before the working class would start to ‘wake up’ en masse here.
I’m impressed. The US legal system is incredibly anemic when it comes to punishing corporations for violating workers’ rights. I hope we really can achieve a multipolar world, one where a standard like this is upheld to emulate, and not the rotten neoliberal legal morass of the West.
If the US regime actually wanted to stop Israel, they could stop sending them boatloads of money and materiel. The fact that they haven’t stopped materially supporting Israel renders all of this hemming and hawing about how the US allegedly doesn’t like it moot. It’s all theater to keep the Western public from questioning the narrative.
Get libs to stop reading The Atlantic challenge: impossible
Cognitive dissonance. Looking at their own government means acknowledging all the ways they themselves are complicit. Plus, Americans are largely programmed from birth to defer to authority figures. That’s largely not true of Europeans, or at least not by the same mechanisms, so I don’t know what their excuse is.
EDIT: I’m agreeing with you, by the way, in case that wasn’t clear.
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man pointing at butterfly Is this Butlerian Jihad?