It’s completely worrisome to me that people keep calling that situation “freedom,” “democracy” or other words of that sort.

As it does omitting that USAmerican colonial power no longer resides in its (lost) productive capacity but entirely relies on its adeptness for destruction.

Well, yes, but moral principle has rarely guided the actions of the USAmerican government or; as Grim’s post shows, the views of its citizens. The fallacy of believing that “less lethal” imperialism is a substitute for the other kind betrays those views.

Feelings, vibes, and stories are not untethered from materiality and are not the opposite of rationality or truth. We can go affect theory here but it should be sufficient to say that the process of verbalization of emotions is what we call rationality.

Ok, but we also need to ask where is the sense of truth/falsity located bc this questionnaire already selects a specific type of voter to answer correctly (stocks owner, informed about border crossings to the month, concerned about inflation and not prices, shielded from crime). Secondly . . .