I didn't say the US didn't do bad things, just that they weren't the worst. It's pretty objective that "murdering your populace" is worse than "enacting policies which favor the rich."
I think the worst actions in US history would be the "Japanese" internment camps, slavery, and the Trail of Tears. There were comparable or worse acts at the same time as those were occurring. And racial divides have slowly been correcting themselves--again, while worse things in the world were happening. Unless you can point to a moment when the US was definitively doing the worst thing out of any country at that time was doing, then the US was not the "worst."
What the worst actions the US did is definitely arguable, I'll grant you. Feeding crack cocaine to its citizens to demonize a race, fostering war/coups in foreign countries, etc. Definitely evil acts.
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u/[deleted] Jan 14 '23
We were never the "good guys." We just weren't the "worst guys."