Useless Idiots
The one-time useful idiots, those who were dubbed this being Soviet supporters in the West, as Lenin ungratefully called them, have had a real problem for a long time.
With the collapse of Soviet Socialism, they became useless idiots, and since then have been looking for something equally unpleasant to be useful to.
There are certain requisites. In their useful days, they absorbed two main ideas, and since any ideas had such hard work getting into their heads that they were far too tired ever to get out again, these are still their main notions.
Hate Western civilization, and hate the Americans. Of course, it is easy to hate the Americans, because they are the most powerful nation on earth, and we ought to remember how earnestly we were hated when we were in that not altogether enviable position. Bung in the West in general, and you have the explanation for the hysterical tantrums indulged in by so many.
It is comic to see how people who will jump about and wail "racism" at any suggestion that, for instance, Zimbabwe is not the ideal state, will enjoy going in for a real go at US bashing.
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But Americans aren't a race, they are a nation built on the shared values of the constitution. Anti-Americanism basically amounts to anti-goodness.
But America isn't about race, it's about shared values. Anti-Americanism is basically a type of anti-goodness.
I'm (broadly) pro-American; hence, I'm happy to state clearly that the claim that "anti-Americanism is anti-goodness" is bollocks.
For example -
1) Religion has a long history of making things be bad. America is more religious than any other developed country. Therefore anti-Americanism is justified.
2) America has a long history of making life good for Americans, while backing people who do horrible things to foreigners. This is one key thing that long made me uncomfortable about America (and the UK, to a lesser degree).
To people whose minds aren't addled by strange propaganda, the Iraq adventure is actually a sign of a major improvement by the US and UK re point 2... but this isn't really the issue either.
But Americans aren't a race, they are a nation built on the shared values of the constitution. Anti-Americanism basically amounts to anti-goodness.
Posted by Alice on December 13, 2003