he faced online criticism for equating desperation with resilience—the original post has since been deleted but was retweeted by Danny Thompson, Director of Technology at This Dot Labs.
Unwordly Americans like to pretend people think of the US as the best country in the world. They think this because they have never spoken to someone from outside the US except for the Mexicans they persecute, so they have an empty canvas to fill with all kinds of wild notions.
Politicians are generally worldly enough to know it’s not true, but that doesn’t win elections.
I suspect the opinion about America and American ways of doing things has also gone down a lot in other developed nations in the last few decades.
The prosperous America of the 50s where a single blue collar salary was enough for a family of 5, a good house, a good car and even various appliances was well worthy of envy, but nowadays that’s all gone and even the improvements on that (which were mainly social, such as more independence for women and less racism - as that 50s “prosperity” was mainly for whites) have been going back of late or at least not going forward quite as fast as in most other developed nations (especially Europe) plus it turns out that the Equality only along racial and gender lines and never along Economic lines, which is the type promoted by Neolibs, just yielded equal poverty for the 99%.
There is no need at all to go back on Economic Equality to go forward on Social Equality, but that’s what was done by 4 decades of Neoliberalism (and, worse, it was then followed by starting to go back on Social Equality as the other Far-Right rose), so now the American Way is not something worthy of envy for anybody in a Developed Nation, quite independently of one’s gender, race or sexual orientation.
