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why are american leftists so obsessed with america?
Removed by modAll the time I hear about "the CIA will coup this", "America supported that", "These people opposed US Imperialism". A topic could have absolutely nothing to do with america and involve a place on the exact opposite part of the earth and Americans will find a way to make it about America. For example, people talk about Russian politics and Putin yet seem to support Putin wholeheartedly because his Russia "opposes american imperialism". This framing of the conversation seemingly ignoring how Russian people feel about his reign, how the EU has been having to drag america into the latest sanctions against Russia, and how for the last 4 years America had an ostensibly Pro-Russian president. I swear American Leftists don't care at all about Capitalism or Communism and just want to oppose the United States. Most of the world and people don't care about American influence, let alone to such an obsessive degree.
Nobody is going to be able to understand the entire history of every place on earth. What American socialists should understand is the relationship between the country they are in (the US) and the country they are discussing. 99.9% of the time that relationship is defined by American imperialism. I'm not going to be able to keep 196+ relationships to 196+ different countries plus the entire history of that country in my head or even learn about all of those connections, because that graph is exponential in size.
Sure, I don't think everyone has to learn all of the history for every country. And I don't think you're a bad person if you don't.