Originally posted by Darth Revan
✅It irritates me when Americans think of this country as being the most important in the world... The rest of the world doesn't see it that way...
If so then the rest of the world are fools. America IS the most important country in the world and it is sheer self-imposed ignorance if anyone ever thinks otherwise- simple denial of the truth because you do not like it. Rather pitiful.
None of us would enjoy living in a world where the US falls from power. Nearly all of Western society is very dependant on the US in very direct ways. Again, people like to ignore this, but it IS so.
The American Dream is simply that any person, of any origins, in a democracy can become better than he is and create his own life for himself. It was a call to liberty and freedom that has been accepted around the world and in many cases would not be there if the US had not been spreading that word.
Yes, it is flawed. Yes, the US can be deeply hypocritical about it, riven by its own internal divisions, prejudices, and unfairness. Yes, the US sometimes does more harm than good.
But this does not affect the fact that liberal western democracy- by far the most civilising and advanced influence the world has ever seen- has its heart now in Washington, and has done for several generations. Moan all you like about Bush, the Iraqi war, and so-called faked elections, but this will remain a fact for the forseeable future.
America is a superpower- the world's only remaining superpower. In fact, more that that now, it is a hyperpower. It is the most powerful force the world has ever seen. If you cannot call it the most important country in the world, the only way I can excuse you is if you are on a different planet at the time.
Hitler, meanwhile, was not even remotely a political genius. He was a demagogue who was simply in the right place in the right time. His people ended up loathing him. He was ALL short-term- frankly, hopeless. The only thing he could ever do right was destroy, and even then not for very long.