pathologizing American liberalism, or how I learned to stop worrying and love Hasan
For Americans, being seen as having the "correct politics" is just about keeping up appearances. True, radical social justice would require some sort of true, radical sacrifice. More often then not leftist Americans who were raised in a white Anglo-Saxon protestant household, use social justice politics as a form of a release valve for the tremendous guilt they subconsciously carry.
By and large most Americans are aware of the intense disparity in the United States vs it's colonies, be they economic or settled. It's no secret that we live in a country where most manufacturing is handled internationally, where the poorest people are paid the lowest wages to do the most dangerous jobs. It's been argued time and again the true benefits of being a citizen of the United States, but one cannot argue against the fact that in the global market, Americans are positioned as the de-facto consumer.
So, what about the politics of "keeping up appearances"? Of being "on the right side of history". Well, ignoring the obvious, that there is no "right side of history", does critiquing barons of fashionista actually do any good?
In my opinion, the sooner this illusion of social justice is shattered, the better off the whole movement becomes. The constant purity testing, the "virtue-signalling", the ideological dogma of the whole thing, it worked in 2016 to get a lot of people on board but I think it preyed on the average WASP American's inherent narcissism, to be "right", to be "in the in group", and now we're facing a whole lot of people who got other'd by this useless cultural lens and are now latching onto right wing populism as a way to confront a fake problem. On top of that, it doesnt grapple with the overconsumption culture that enables "American exceptionalism".
Immigrants are not the problem, "woke" is not the problem, hell, "globalism" mightve been the problem 30 years ago but I mean, wake up, this is the world we live in now. Tl;dr, "sent from my iPhone"