So many US citizens don't understand the nature of US power.
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/the-us-canada-trainwreck-and-the-limits-of-american-power
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@mwl I think we can generalize that to say that many US citizens don't understand the nature of the USA. (From the inside it looks omnipresent and inevitable: but from the outside, it's just another great power, and one whose inhabitants—like those of the UK in the 19th and early 20th centuries—suffer from a delusion of omnipotence.)
@cstross @mwl I was looking at Amtrak's route map (a friend told of travelling from Houston to DC, and I thought a connection had died. Yes, the via Florida did, but jot the one CIA Biloxi). Amtrak's map show Montreal, Toronto and Vancouver, which they serve. But... Not even a provincial border or other shape of Canada. Why?
@mwl Delusions of imperial omnipotence are excusable in the subject classes, but when they infect the ruling elite, that's an empire-toppling moment. And it's been encroaching on them since the neoliberal ascendancy during the George W. Bush administration.
@cstross Yes.
I came of age in the Reagan years. We had scammers then, but they knew it was a scam.
The people who believed those scammers are now in charge, served by a generation raised to believe the scams.
I can only hope that the reality check isn't too brutal for the rest of us.
