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America doesn’t lack riots because we have a good system—we lack riots because the Red Scare stomped out all of our growing leftist movements and that impact is still felt today. We are not “better” in all aspects, we’re just terrified and brainwashed.
and it IS brainwashing. From the time we’re born, it’s: “the police protect you. Our military is strong, and that’s good. Our system is the best. Our country has the best functionality.” We’re just lied to and manipulated and we aren’t taught anything else.
I’m not saying Americans don’t have political privileges that other countries don’t, because that’d be ignorant. We DO have free speech protections, but even those are phony. Free speech has never applied to leftists in America. We get deported, shot at, jailed, killed.
And it’s so hard to even get a good and objective education that could lead us to using our free speech in the first place. We’re spoonfed so much xenophobic and anti-communist propaganda. We’re all little war machines from childhood.
Being a police officer is good! Being a military officer is good! Being the strongest country, able to crush others, is good! Crushing your own people is good! Anything to maintain our oppressive powers is good! Anyone who tells you otherwise is a filthy commie!!
Our society indoctrinates us into authoritarian and capitalist views to the point where our free speech can just stop mattering. When you’ve brainwashed your youth, who cares what they’ll say? It won’t be anything undesirable. It’ll just be what they’re taught to believe.
Greatest country on earth! Strongest country on earth! And we got here by slaughtering Native Americans, enslaving and torturing black people, supporting communist massacres, etc etc. “But who cares as long as we’re strong? Besides, that’s all in the past!”
“Everything is better now! Racism is a nonexistent issue (even though we continue to slaughter Black people!) You can have free speech (but we’ll shoot you for practicing it!) You have the opportunity to live the American dream (even though class mobility is at an all time low!)”
We’re taught that it’s honorable to kill people who are different—that death to those who oppose us, no matter their intentions, is justified and necessary. Our brains are muddled with nationalist propaganda.
The Pledge of Allegiance is just a casual way of radicalizing young children into nationalism. “I will always stand for my country. It can do no wrong.” That’s what we’re taught. And we all sit silently when tragedy strikes because it could never be America’s fault.
“America, land of the free, home of the great, the best country in the world, the strongest country in the world, could never have any systemic issues. We could never be responsible for a mistake. It’s everyone else! They’re the problems! Kill them!”
“KILL THEM!” This isn’t hyperbole. We are taught to kill our enemies. Some people might not realize that but we’ve been indirectly taught that. We are accustomed to blood. We’ve normalized death. We tend to excuse it when when it comes from our own forces.
And because this propaganda is so subtle and natural, people don’t even realize that they’ve internalized all of it. A regular high schooler wouldn’t immediately say “I want US enemies dead” but come war time, we’re so accustomed to faux-superiority that we just don’t care.
This form of propagation is virtually unnoticeable in daily life, but it’s so useful for the government when it needs to be. “We needed to drop nukes. We needed to air strike innocents. It was to preserve America.” And we just nod and move on with our lives.
It makes me feel ill.
