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If they are willing to defend facism and defend a dictator....then what's the problem?
At some point your "I'm just doing my job" becomes, "I support an American dictatorship.". Do you not have morals? Your "job" has now become antithetical to the American Democratic Ethos - you are now a de facto traitor to your country. Last I checked, traitors are an enemy of the state.
....so again, what's the problem?
Yeah Thomas Mann's poem is still relevant and more people need to read it and understand it.
If you "only follow commands", you are still implicated in every action. If you are a cop you are literally one of the checks in the system of checks and balances.
Not sure which slaveholders or Manifest Destiny folks you’re putting on a pedestal, but even if—big if—America’s dead once had admirable and pro-humanity values, today’s terrified, uneducated, unhappy, unkind, impoverished shithole does not.
Being an awful person appears to reflect perfectly these last generations of the American Empire.