Akala and the idiocy of Europe’s anti-American far left

On the BBC’s landmark political roundtable show this Thursday, British rapper and left-wing political activist Akala gave a keen insight into the European far Left’s attitude towards America — specifically, the utter vacuous simplicity of their worldview towards America.

Discussing President Trump’s withdrawal from the Iran nuclear deal, Akala went on a little rant.

A few years ago, I think it was 2014 but don’t hold me to that, Gallup — which is an American polling company — did a global survey, 66 countries, over 100,000 people — so this was not just radical crazy leftists. And they asked people, ‘Which country in the world is the greatest danger to world peace?’ This was before Trump came into office. Twenty-five percent, 24 percent to be precise, responded, ‘The United States of America.’ Yeah, so if people already thought America was the greatest threat to world peace, which by inference means [Britain is a] threat to world peace … it was the No. 1 country … how much worse has that got for the people around the world now? That was when Obama was in power. So the whole question has to be, and it’s disgraceful that we don’t have more challenge from anyone in our political establishment … whether there’s any challenge to the role of America as the world’s global policeman? Because most do not accept that. If we’re saying we believe in democracy, why are not we supporting international democracy?


The operative concern here centers on that of substance — Or in this case, the lack thereof. After all, what is Akala’s actual point? Because he doesn’t seem to have a specific gripe about a particular U.S. foreign policy. Nor does the (good) rapper explain what he means by “international democracy.” Nor does he base his argument in anything other than a global opinion poll.

Of course, the absence of detail here speaks to the ultimate issue. Namely, that European far-leftists regard the United States with such imbued negativity that they don’t bother to even delve into the details of their opposition. They simply know it to be true.

Guess who also spreads these simplistic “America is the world’s boogeyman” theories?

Russia’s propaganda outlets.

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