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I also increasingly get a feeling that we in “the West” are so used to politicians talking shit for their own gain that it’s hard to believe that any political party actually believes in their own ideology. It’s nearly impossible for us to look at someone like president Xi and not think “he just wants power” and look at China’s foreign policy and not think “they just want raw materials” because that is the world we grew up in. Where we are told one thing but the actions of the powerful reveal something completely different. That might also be a factor that scares the ones in power. It sets a different précédent and thus holds the world to a different stander.
That may be true in the west but it’s also true for pretty much all of human history. Most ideology exists in the first place to justify unjust hierarchies.
