there’s a book out there titled “dying of whiteness” and it describes how white (mostly poor) americans chose to vote against their own interests (especially for healthcare) rather than see any out-group (especially minorities) get any support.
i think that all americans will be dying of whiteness fiscally rather than admit that china has surpassed the united states economically.
It’s a hard pill to swallow to be sure. Americans are taught that they’re exceptional, and the US is a shining city on the hill that all the world looks up to. Meanwhile, China is presented as some sort of a hellscape with a collapsing economy. I can see why accepting that this is an inversion of the real world is so difficult.
It’s worst than that; we’re taught that China is a dystopian, authoritarian hellhole and I think that our collective “common sense” is going to make us go to extensive, painful, and unreversible lengths to prevent that “hellhole” from becoming the world’s hegemon.
I agree, it’s all framed as some mythical battle between good and evil like it’s star wars or something.
My only prayer is that if this leads to a damn near shitshow collapse that the West Coast will fulfill a break off from the US, the settler state culture of the US is it’s inevitable downfall (i.e. the boomerang of imperialism/fascism).
the settler state culture of the US is it’s inevitable downfall
I agree this is true, but this seed takes centuries to bloom into a collapse since it can (and has) been delayed many times; as evidenced by the native American style extermination that’s happening in Gaza rn.
I fully expect there to be a nothing more than a chapter is some history book on the Gazan version of the trail-of-tears in the next 100 years or so as future Isrealis willfully remain ignorant of the atrocities committed in their name as Americans are in theirs.
