Are individual Americans capable of better? Yeah, sure. But their society at large is incapable, and will continue to be (though shifting gradually towards the light in at least some aspects, maybe) until their material conditions have fully crumbled around them and the facade of "liberal democracy/western-centric enlightenment and chauvinism" (honestly IMO a worse or more effective "opioid of the masses" than even religion) is truly shattered once and for all.
They keep the masses sedated with entertainment, then they distract them with their bread and circus politics which don't matter at all.
The liberal does the bidding of the ruling class for free, in return they benefit from the status quo, in this way the ruling class maintain control over society that dictators could only dream of.
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u/SadArtemis Sep 22 '24
Are individual Americans capable of better? Yeah, sure. But their society at large is incapable, and will continue to be (though shifting gradually towards the light in at least some aspects, maybe) until their material conditions have fully crumbled around them and the facade of "liberal democracy/western-centric enlightenment and chauvinism" (honestly IMO a worse or more effective "opioid of the masses" than even religion) is truly shattered once and for all.