I live in Portland and while there are homeless people downtown it’s a great city to live in and I’ve never felt unsafe. Fox News has been saying for years that Portland is basically a war-torn shell of a city in which people huddle in their homes afraid of the criminals freely roaming the streets. They’ve even used footage from riots in 2020 and pretended it was present-day [0]. It’s terrifying that we have a president who believes and takes action based on what he sees on TV.
I don’t care all that much for the book, but I often think of a passage Samuel Huntington wrote in The Clash of Civilizations:
“The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact; non-Westerners never do.”
His supporters want to believe it is war-ravaged as pretext for oppression.
I wish I could tell you why they want to believe this, but I cannot imagine the depths of the craven and anti-social mindset of someone who desires to inflict the full force of the US military against their fellow countrymen.
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Seems the whole military honor thing is just a myth.
I guess „thank you for your service“ will only be used sarcastically in the future
“The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact; non-Westerners never do.”
[1] - https://archive.is/gZ8Q0
I wish I could tell you why they want to believe this, but I cannot imagine the depths of the craven and anti-social mindset of someone who desires to inflict the full force of the US military against their fellow countrymen.