I submit that the reason that this mistake (which would have been obvious to anybody who knows that even modest countries will have a GDP in the billions) fell through the editorial cracks is because it had the malignant fortune to hit one of the blind spots of progressive foreign thinking. To wit: progressive activists in this country don’t really like to think about foreign countries, except in terms of how they can be used to push domestic policies. The most obvious example of this would be the Global War on Terror – it’s amazing how docile the groups that gave the antiwar movement its oomph became the second that a Republican was out of office – but this isn’t a bad example, either. Apparently in Alternet- and Salon-world foreign countries are these picaresque and precious little toys of places where the locals go about their quaint native ways, because in them everybody knows their place and nobody has any pocket money. It’s all very Ugly American****; in fact, Alternet is apparently one monocle and pith helmet away from adopting a policy of shouting at foreigners until they admit that they know English. redstate/2015/01/14/alternet-salon-congress-gdp/
Posted on: Wed, 14 Jan 2015 21:01:49 +0000
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