[green, speaking, looking smug]
Okay, hear me out, here’s the plan…
We go full apathy, basically we let capitalism fully spiral out into fascism. Once it’s done, people will rise up and the system will collapse under its own weight. From its ashes, with our help, a better society will rise. This is how we win.
[we now see that green is tied up in front of a bleak wall, along with a group of other people, being aimed at by a firing squad of characters in fascist uniforms]
[green, smiling] OK?
[blue, pissed] Dude…
So then the reason you don’t think anyone’s whitewashing anything is because you also whitewash them.
That’s not at all what I’m saying.
It certainly sounds like it is.
Bush did not “actually care about America.” He sent Americans to die in pointless wars so that his rich buddies could get even more rich. He pioneered the surveillance state. He created ICE.
If you hadn’t forgotten the horrors and weren’t whitewashing him, you’d be as disgusted and repulsed by anyone talking nonsense about how he was “respectable” or “cared about America.”
Bush was a horrible war criminal who should be spending the rest of his life in gitmo untouched by light but I’d rather have him as president right now.
And you don’t have any problem with people saying that a “horrible war criminal that belongs in gitmo” “actually cared about America?”
That comes right back around to the point that when Bush sold out the US he sold it to Americans.
So does Trump.
If anything, selling out to foreigners would be preferable, because the American bourgeoisie are the direct enemies of the American proletariat. The stronger and richer they get, the more power they have to make my conditions worse, to make me accept lower wages, to endure and subvert strikes and unions. It’s just straight up nationalism to think strengthening the American bourgeoisie somehow benefits regular Americans, like it’s gonna trickle down somehow.
Cone on we’re having a good conversation here speak English.
I don’t read enough theory for that to make sense to me.
When the rich get richer, they have more power to make poor people’s lives worse. I don’t want rich Americans to get richer because they will use that to keep me down.
If you only care about rich Americans or white Americans, you don’t “actually care about America” in my book.