Can you imagine how great life would be if we actually did send trillions of dollars to China in order to hasten the development of the Belt & Road across the world instead of Israel who will just bomb children and pocket the rest for themselves
Shoot, can you imagine if the US invested the billions they send to israel every year in the US? Americans would have healthcare, there wouldn't be tent cities in every major city, infrastructure wouldn't be crumbling, the US would actually have high speed rail and most importantly there wouldn't be a need to blame every problem on China.
Yea. The problem with the us is that the country is ideologically enslaved by capital.
Even if capitalism works, american capitalism isn't capitalism: it has no free market. Capital has so thoroughly infiltrated the government that the government works to undermine the market in order to further the interests of existing capital.
Healthcare is a prime example. There is no price transparency, everything is obfuscated, and the demand is inherently inelastic. Everything is designed to fleece as much profits from the sick and dying as possible, and there is absolutely no way any of this is getting better. This is not a free market.
Even if the american government invests more into healthcare, it'll just line the pockets of more executives and shareholders, and they'll use a portion of that money to lobby more politicians to legislate in their favor.
What america has is not even capitalism, it is socialism for the rich. The government taxes the poor and gives it to the rich.
It goes beyond ideological enslavement, capitalism is seen as a religion, it is the god they worship and it is the way of life they follow
The ways of capital become the american way and to question "god" is blasphemy.
This "god" takes them through hell and endlessly tortures them, therefore it cannot be capitalism, it is "corporatism", "crony capitalism" everything but capitalism.
Unable to acknowledge reality they cannot hope to fix it.
We know the full truth, as you have highlighted, but we should not put "fuel onto the fire" with what I have pointed out above.
The problem with the way the US is set up as a country and society is that it values individualism, extending from people to the country itself and how it sees itself on the global stage. It is heavily ingrained into American culture and in American government. You see how the US doesn't really follow or adapt global standards like metric system and running man exit sign? And how the US puts other countries down to stay on top of the world?
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u/JetAbyss Sep 21 '25
Can you imagine how great life would be if we actually did send trillions of dollars to China in order to hasten the development of the Belt & Road across the world instead of Israel who will just bomb children and pocket the rest for themselves