The Left wants America to be liked

I assume you came to this conclusion by listening to the left complain that because we're so bad and so evil and so blameworthy, the world hates us.

Dennis, it's just a talk line, a bumper sticker for pushing the real agenda.

You have to look at the underlying assumptions first. I know you have done so yourself, but I don't think you've connected them to what manifests itself as what the left really wants.

Borders are bad. Borders make some nations unequal to others. They mean one society can practice capitalism while the one right next door is an exploitative, oppressive country that keeps its poor poor and runs its government only for the benefit and comfort of the rich.

Capitalism is bad. Capitalism is bad because it means people will be unequal within the capitalist country. Some people do better than others but it is mainly through hard work, unless it is from inheriting money, which is bad. Communism is good. It is good because it means everyone is equal, except of course for the people who run the country but since communist bureaucrats deserve their better station due to the responsibility they have and their greater value to the society, it's okay.

The rest of the world is moving toward more equality for people, more equality between countries. This is good, this is noble, this is the right thing to do. The United States is resisting this move toward equality, and this is bad. We cling to our wealth and won't let anyone else have any. Bad, bad, bad. In fact, given that leftists generally think that if John has a nickel, that's a nickel that Jane can't have, then you understand why they loathe us so much. We gathered all the wealth of the world to ourselves and did it by robbing them of the chance to have any wealth.

So--Given that borders are bad, the U.S. is bad, the U.S. has too much wealth, and the U.S. won't give their wealth to the rest of the world, then the solution must be to do away with the U.S. How do you do that? Not by revolution, for the U.S. is too powerful and a popular revolution from inside was unthinkable. You must build up the popular idea that destroying the U.S. is a good thing, fundamentally transforming her is the moral thing. You use everything you have to get people's hearts to change, from telling them that capitalism is evil and Jesus hates capitalists to asserting that educated people want to spread the wealth around to calling the entire country racist. Appealing to the desire of soft-hearted Americans to be liked is only one of the weapons you use, but it's only lip service. They really want Americans to want to be like the vision the left has for us all.