It can be done tastefully if there is a desire to humanize the non Americans. The problem is that desire is often what’s lacking.

If you being democracy to a country against the will of the people, is that reqlly democratic? This sounds like putting lipstick on the pig that is imperialism.

Somehow I can’t relate to that all. No amount of economic desperation would bring many people to that.

Now with the right amount of indoctrination and lack of education I can definitely see things playing out that way.

“I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro’s great stumbling block is not the White Citizen’s Councilor or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate, who is more devoted to ‘order’ than to justice; who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice” - MLK Jr

Yeah I think the wording needs work. Both Democrats and Republicans wanted segregation to continue, it was only after immense pressure domestically and internationally that Democrats changed their tune. The Soviets were pumping out “I thought y’all said all men are created equal in your founding documents” as part of the propaganda machine (which was a legitimate call out).

Its only after getting called out over and over again that these changes happened. That doesn’t mean the people who allowed that progress to happen deserve no credit but I would give primary credit for woman’s suffrage to women and the end of the American race based caste system known as segregation to African Americans. With some of them being liberals themselves and others being supporters who believed in a message of universal humanity.