Okay? That has nothing to do with what I said, what about the Biden admin helping run cover for the Gaza genocide? Was that not a case of putting profits, the military industrial complex, above people?

What about when Clinton signed NAFTA and condemned swaths of the US to poverty (rustbelt is not a term of endearment)?

I mean this country's founding document had carveouts for slavers and some of the first laws signed into Congress was the fugitive slave act.

Sorry but it's not US leadership that cares about Americans, it has always been Americans themselves fighting for justice + a better a life.

I am not hand waving anything, this is the reality of neoliberalism and has been a core American trait since our founding: some Americans are more equal than others, elites deserve more money.

There was only a small period of time in our country's history, 1940s to late 1960s, where workers had a true say at the table:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Compression

We have yet to return to the only period of history that not only improved the lives of workers materially, but also spiritually by increasing civil rights and making it so that the first time in our nation's history that every American had the legal right to vote.

I mean FFS our leaders are literally allowed to engage in insider trading and legalized bribes, you're trying to tell me with a straight face that these same ghouls somehow have a soul and want to save the planet?

Whataboutism works a lot better if you don't literally start sentences with "what about..."