re: #257 aagcobb

Excepting Israel, I think most wingnuts believe all our allies are Marxist dictatorships, if you believe their rhetoric.

Yes, so many Americans are completely ignorant of the rest of the world, it’s truly sad. It’s the flip side of American exceptionalism—we don’t need to pay attention to the rest of the world because “We’re no. 1, we’re no. 1, fuck yeah!”

The idea that Canada or Australia are hotbeds of radicalism is absurd. They merely have a shared cultural value that a healthy populace is a valuable public good. We aren’t there yet.