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The community has a rule concerning AI-generated content, but the phrasing is not natural to interpret neutrally.

Without your comment, I would be at a loss to interpret the post.

Your examples are distant and incidental, in relation to the present, collected largely through cherry picking.

Regardless, western imperialism of the overarching power across the globe. All other systems are distorted to conform to its demands. Thus, it is quite apparently the root cause of problems around the world, especially problems that are geopolitical.

To repeat, Iranian society and government were broadly secular until after foreign intrusion. The colonial relation between Iran versus the US and UK occurs in only one direction.

It is counterproductive to locate primary responsibility other than in the root cause.

I certainly respect anyone who feels the need to leave, but mobility is a privilege not available to everyone. Moreover, we should all respect everyone willing to stay for the fight. Simply, many would prefer fighting to keep their homes over fleeing elsewhere.

Well, as I say, solutions will not be handed down from the top.

We must do the work together of solving our own problems.

The US was founded on slavery and genocide. When elections were implemented, four percent only of the population was granted suffrage, propertied white men.

I always wonder at what particular point the US is believed to have become democratic, since its founders clearly maintained a deep enthusiasm for racism, sexism, and aristocracy.

Bosses and bootlickers both demand our wariness.

No one is coming to save us.

We must do the work of demanding accountability, beginning with our local leaders, and rising all the way to the top.

Yes people still pretend that.

I don’t know where you live, that you think nobody pretends that.

American exceptionalism is alive and well.

The prevailing opinion, if not that the US remains as a functional democracy, that it once was functional as a democracy, but has become broken and in need of repair.

The pivotal question is when, if ever, did it ever even come close to fulfilling its own ideals as a democracy.

Support from the state is likely to vary based on local context and the current administrations.

No one should be naively hopeful.

It is most optimal to rely on labor organization for finding individuals with specific relevant experience.

Whoever has power is bound eventually to use it unwisely and unvirtuously.

Much more than the individuals who wield power, the problem is the systems of consolidated power.