@Typo-MAGAshiv Dude. This is a PROPAGANDA video you posted. Not 30 seconds in they're saying, oOOOoh, well if it was OBAMA we'd be saying what a great thing , but Trump is held to a little bit different standard!!!

No, you MAGA fucksticks-YOU are not holding TRUMP to any kind of standard AT ALL! If you held YOURSELVES to any kind of standards, you'd be admitting you got suckered by Trump and Maga, and renouncing them.

But, that's not what's baked into the GOP OR its supposed breakout branch MAGA. By definition, conservatives tend to conserve the status quo, to hew to tradition, to stick with things the way they are.

Liberalism by its very definition, means a willingness to break from tradition, to reject old ways, to branch out and try new ideas in search of those that work better than status quo.

The Democratic party is currently polling in the 28-35% approval range- AMONG DEMOCRATS It's the Republicans and GOP that I've watched circle their wagons around their incumbents, and defend them no matter how many blatant lies they tell and failures their policies lead to. Reaganomics, the First Gulf War/Saddam has WMDs. Invading Iraq will be a cake walk. The Taliban are nothing but backward goat herders living in caves we'll be in and out of Afghanistan in weeks.

Propaganda like the shit you posted above, only helps to reinforce your self assurance in the face of repeated failures and feedback that your party, and your choice of leaders, are consistently wrong about everything and keep leading to terrible outcomes. It does nothing to pass along useful information, only to steer you to work against your own interests. How blue pill is THAT???

@Typo-MAGAshiv Yes really. Civilisation is not about about being western. That is biggest mistake the US makes. It leads the world but that does not make it the most civilised country on earth. It needs to realise that other versions are on offer and work to sell its own version, not assume that it will naturally assert itself because it is superior just because US power is superior.

I didn't want to send off some knee jerk response to someone whose thoughts I respect, so to make sure I was not being factual in writing this reply and that I was not using my own, perhaps outdated definition of civilisation, I went to check what was the most commonly agreed definition.

Wikipedia; A civilization (or civilisation) is any complex society characterized by the development of the state, social stratification, urbanization, and symbolic systems of communication beyond natural spoken language (namely, a writing system).Civilizations are additionally characterized by specialization of labour, agriculture, architecture, infrastructure, technological advancement, taxation, and regulation. This is the definition I mean.

Oxford dictionaries AI answer;

1. the stage of human social and cultural development and organization that is considered most advanced. This definition is ignorant and full of hybris.

British academia has evidently fallen victim to a dangerous delusion. I fear they caught it from US academics or perhaps British academia got it first in the days they were top dog? Either way informed people must not catch this delusion.

A county like Iran that borders Mesopotamia is deeply civilised and has civilisation steep into its fabric far more than the US that still celebrates mountain men and cowboys millennia after Gilgamesh civilised Enkidu. (Amusingly, if I recall by giving him a whore who then gives him a beer and that's Enkidu ruined. I always preferred the mountain men myself).