Americans all across the political spectrum are actually not normal about soooo many countries, it is insane.
Israel. This goes beyond saying but both left wingers and righ wingers are convinced that the country is some sort of demon incarnate, they are blaming it for anything ranging from ICE to the Spain migration crisis, to their own political polarization. Generally antisemetism has made people all across the spectrum very stupid. And even a lot of the American supporters of Israel are insane evangelicals that only support israel bcs of their bs fantasies of Armageddon. So yeah no one is normal abt that country
AMERICA ITSELF. I feel like a lot of the polarization in american politics is bcs american politics have become a reckoning abt the question ''is america good?''. And one side insists it is the best and most glorious country in the world that has been wronged by everyone while some (although not all and the problem isn't as big as it is on the american right) leftists insist that country is beyond redemption and has produced nothing good (Shocker: Saying a country is beyond redemption is literaly the most unhelpful thing if the goal is to make it better)
China. Sorry but we either have the Hasan Piker types that try to fetishize it, ignoring the oppresion of the Tibetans or the Uyghrus or the political repression in general, or we have people convinced of the fact that China is an evil hellhole ignoring the fact that in the last decades the standards of living for the averege chinese person have JUMPED. As much as I don't like the chinese government, ignoring that basic fact doesn;'t help anyone and it is just stupid. Similarly to how it is stupid for people to just rage abt how china wants to dominate over africa through economic programs while supporting the withdrawal of USAID that allows for US to compete with china. Gnerally, maybe treating a geopolitical rival as either a cartoon hero or a cartoon villain is a bad strategy.
Any country in Subsaharan africa. In which conservatives and right wingers will assume people there are stupid and backwards ignoring both colonialism and other objective geographical conditions that led to the underdevelopment and have nothing to do with their racist bs theories. And then left wingers will soooo often push some noble savage bullshit and be like ''ohhh it is so wholesome these people are in touch with nature and traditions'' ignoring the fact people in Kenya or Tanzania WANT to industrialize, WANT to become richer and that doesn't make them greedy. Neither is their poverty some sort of mroal virtue to be upkept.
BOTTOM LINE: PLS DON'T TREAT COUNTRIES LIKE CARTOONS I BEG YOU I BEG YOU .
Editing my prior reblog because I've decided my tags were worth adding to the post itself.
Countries I'd like to add to the list:
India. Everyone get normal about India, I mean it. Right-wingers have the usual racist garbage in their heads about it because duh but left-wingers speak with a sense of unearned expertise about it & it's nuts because they're so fucking wrong. The way you think that country works is almost certainly inaccurate and the conflict between Hinduism and Islam there is nothing at all like the straightforward Islamophobia you're familiar with here. Accept and truly understand that everywhere is not America and American social attitudes are not prevalent in places other than America. Immediately.
Most Latin American countries but especially Venezuela and Cuba. Those people suffered immensely under their governments and a lot of left-wingers are too comfortable calling them all sorts of names for reacting in predictable, flawed, human ways to that suffering. You will survive knowing that most of them are not ready to join your communist org (and in fact are uncomfortable being asked to do so), I promise. And right-wingers are being predictably racist about it too.
Ukraine. Right-wingers somehow forgot how bad they hated Russia until fairly recently and have decided to instead act like Zelensky is the world's worst person for wanting his country to survive. Left-wingers somehow forgot how bad they hated imperialism until fairly recently and have decided to instead act like Zelensky is the world's worst person for wanting his country to survive. Ukrainians are undergoing a war with heavy genocidal intent right now and very few people have shown them any sincere compassion.
On that note, Russia. They are not your communist wet dream, they are a highly repressive imperialist state with openly genocidal aspirations toward their neighbors, who would and do prioritise self-aggrandizing wars of conquest over their own citizens' lives and well-being. Sound familiar? It should.
