The Collapse of the American Myth –
an Opportunity for the Israeli Left
Israelis typically view the United States of America with awe, hope, but also
arrogance as
a friendly country that backs Israel through thick and thin, supports
Jews and other minorities worldwide, leads the “free world” and serves
as a bulwark in pursuit of freedom, justice and prosperity.
But as many realize, this idealization is a result of
propaganda.
Not only does the US fail to hold up to that fantasy, it is the exact
opposite: a dystopic, capitalist, conservative empire, which is
chauvinistic and racist, chokes its own civilians and leads the world in
exporting misery, violence, exploitation and corruption.
The American dystopia currently threatens what little remains of
democracy and decency within it: the public sector is on a perpetual
diet and about to starve, health care is a privatized mess, public
education is deteriorating,
now on overdrive under Betsy DeVos, fascism is present both in
the streets and in the
White House,
the military and
police keep expanding at the expense of the commons, inequality is the
worst in the industrialized world and independent and leftist media are
silenced and
repressed.
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