which doesn't excuse it or make it acceptable, but it does validate my belief that he was FAR better than America could have expected or deserved.
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As far as I can tell, the most legit complaint re: Obama is the deportations, which feel politically gratuitous as well as morally repugnant. His FP was imperialist 100% but probably less so than any major party presidential candidate in the past 20 years would have been.
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and of course there are those who resent anyone who puts a smiling face on US imperialism, rapacious capitalism, etc. No matter how much harm is reduced relative to the counterfactual, being the system's tool of successful adaptation makes you inherently counter-revolutionary.
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But idk, even as I recognize it as a radically morally insufficient response to the reality of human suffering, I also think that in this flawed and fallen world, life often improves by the concessions power makes to justice, not in the radical overthrow of all authority.
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Perhaps you could argue the revolutions in China, Russia, and elsewhere in the past century were such radical restructurings. I don't know enough to say yea or nay.
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but idk how to balance my belief that he is better than we could have expected or deserved with the fact that "better than the empire deserves" is still death and misery to millions upon millions, if not billions, of human beings whose worth is infinite.
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and not just in the general. I'm hard pressed to come up with a primary candidate who attracted any significant support who would have done better. Bernie, maybe? But I feel like his FP is so underdeveloped he would have gotten bossed by the generals (...like Obama.)
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