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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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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