” The “ideology” stuff was only ever there to confuse & disorient. “
O’brien makes that point in “1984”. It’s all about power, and all the stuff about country, loyalty, justice is just a thin shell over the lust for control and power. Think of the future as a boot...
“the stuff about country, loyalty, justice is just a thin shell over the lust for control and power”
To the corrupt, sure. And possibly for a plurality/majority of the kind of people there are in congress, etc.
But there are still a great many for whom those things are very real, not because they are propagandized, but because it’s meaningful.
But also it depends how you define “country”. They are trying to define America as a “country of the world” where any and all have as much right to come, simply because most people immigrated a few hundred years ago. As if the shorter period of time makes America less of those people than India is of the Indians, or China of the Chinese. And there is not currently an answer to that out there, so it remains, like the default position, because no one is countering it.