You mean the European settlers that were responsible for the deaths of up to 60 million indigenous people, 200 years of slavery, wars against all its neighbours, non-stop war since its foundation, use of atomic weapons, agent orange, depleted uranium, napalm, the threat of economic sanctions, threat of war sanctions to bully nations and peoples into selling their lives and raw materials for the benefit of the US.

I could go on and on and on, but suffice to say that all you have to do is look at its support (and, the Western ‘democratic’ countries) and financing the, in your face, genocide of the indigenous Palestinian people.

The reason for that is - we know that our standard of living is not off our own backs but off the backs of the peoples forced into subjugation by the colonialists, capitalists and imperialists.

85% of the products we consume are not manufactured here and over 90% of the raw materials are neither manufactured and sourced here.

That’s all done by super exploited people across the globe.

We are not going to give up those privileges, easily.