Binge posting.
Must inform the unwashed as to her
asstute knowledge of international politics.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10024820685Mon Apr 14, 2014, 02:21 PM
nadinbrzezinski (132,586 posts)
Caricatures of Empire...
I grew up in Mexico City, and at 17 I took a sociology class. My instructor was the General Secretary of the Mexico City Communist Party. The real hate for the United States, it was something we all drew with out mother's milk. You even read it in the papers that the United States was evil, and the heart of all problems around the world. It was just the way it was. And everything the US did, good or bad, was questioned.
I hope y'all are ready for this response to one comment.

Response to Oakenshield (Reply #4)
Mon Apr 14, 2014, 02:47 PM
nadinbrzezinski (132,586 posts)
6. Nah I sat on the beach of this is how things work Life's a beach, then you die.
in the real world. That does not mean I am not a critic, but I happen to have a far more nuanced view of the world. You are welcome to the cartoons.

That poor guy replied, and got this in return.
Response to Oakenshield (Reply #8
Mon Apr 14, 2014, 03:02 PM
nadinbrzezinski (132,586 posts)
9. I am critical of it, but as a more structural level
I understand that the US is advancing it's own interests. I also know it is an Empire in decline (a dangerous kind of Empire)The result of creeping socialism.
Do not get me started on NAFTA, and the slew of treaties that followed, or the TTP. But I do not see the US as the heart of all evil. I am sorry. I see the US as advancing it's own goals, like everybody else. International politics can be worst than watching sausage being made. Maybe wurst, even.
And we cannot mind our own business because we are a continental empire. And we are also a very reluctant Empire to boot. But if you really want to fight that, you need to start by changing how DC works and who is the power behind the curtain, and it is not you. It is not we the people. And that is the problem, people really do not understand the mechanics of it, Of course, gNads knows it all. and that is on purpose.
A lesson from History, Just what they need. the USSR stopped doing that crap (for a while they are now on try number three, at least) is when people took to the streets en mass and the army stopped getting paid.
People navel gazing on the web is gong to change nothing. And that includes minds. The gong show.
(Oh and yes I am a local reporter for independent media, part of my activism)
How can anyone ever not know.
