Interesting, I like that analogy.

Ah yes, being born in a country makes you an expert on it and you are magically imbued with everything about its history with total accuracy. That’s why everyone born in the US is famous for being in total agreement on everything.

Fun train of thought, though I think if aliens were that advanced and interested in cooperation, they’d do some observing and evaluating first, work out that a prominent socialist state who is doing cooperative stuff would be the best one to work with, and pay China a visit as quietly as possible (so as not to alarm the earthlings). The US would probably be considered too paranoid and unpredictable to go near without careful consideration.

Widen your mind: https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/mao/selected-works/volume-2/mswv2_03.htm

I feel you though cause it reminds me of the time when I was at some little activity thing for kids at my local library at the time and they were having us do a drawing and I couldn’t draw for shit and didn’t even know where to begin with an idea for what to draw, so from what I remember, I was just kind of stunlocked for most of the time. And then one of the kids, who granted was a fair bit older than me from the look of it, drew some fancy thing I couldn’t even imagine doing.

There’s a quote attributed to William Levitt, a guy who is also credited as “the father of American suburbia”, that goes like this: “No man who owns his own house and lot can be a communist. He has too much to do.”

Here is a source I could find on the quote: https://time.com/archive/6598189/suburban-legend-william-levitt/

(though warning, from what I skimmed of it, it seems to be one of those overly flattering bourgeoisie portrayals)

What’s wrong with opposing cartels?

What’s wrong with opposing terrorists?

What’s wrong with opposing dictators?

The answer to all of these is: The western empire declares something/someone an enemy when it wants an excuse to attack it/them. If you take it at face value in a vacuum, it sounds reasonable enough, but historically, it’s almost never about what they say it is about. You can even see this sort of thing in the hundreds of years old colonial civil/savage narrative that lingers some today and the narrative playbook hasn’t changed that much, fundamentally. They’re still doing it to Palestine, for example.