Based on my unscientific interviews with a large number of people of different classes, castes, colors, ethnicities, and so forth, I'd say that most people in the US don't like the war but are not very interested in who started it and in the various moralizing arguments surrounding it. Poor and working-class people know they have no voice in the government, so it doesn't matter what they think, while the very rich live mostly above it all and the überrich have their hideaways in New Zealand. It is the PMC who care, either because they're schoolish and have been told what to think, or because they are reasonably aware that the Empire as you call it produces tangible if short-term benefits for them personally, mostly in the form of comparatively well-paying jobs that do not involve heavy lifting or getting their hands dirty. Some of them probably aspire to mandarin-level jobs. The truly ambitious among them want to send their sons and daughters to Yale. Essentially, these people are hopeless. Sauve qui peut!
And devil take the hindmost! Yes, one would hope deprivation might bring on clear thinking, but it doesn't always happen, and sometimes it's counterproductive.
Based on my unscientific interviews with a large number of people of different classes, castes, colors, ethnicities, and so forth, I'd say that most people in the US don't like the war but are not very interested in who started it and in the various moralizing arguments surrounding it. Poor and working-class people know they have no voice in the government, so it doesn't matter what they think, while the very rich live mostly above it all and the überrich have their hideaways in New Zealand. It is the PMC who care, either because they're schoolish and have been told what to think, or because they are reasonably aware that the Empire as you call it produces tangible if short-term benefits for them personally, mostly in the form of comparatively well-paying jobs that do not involve heavy lifting or getting their hands dirty. Some of them probably aspire to mandarin-level jobs. The truly ambitious among them want to send their sons and daughters to Yale. Essentially, these people are hopeless. Sauve qui peut!
And devil take the hindmost! Yes, one would hope deprivation might bring on clear thinking, but it doesn't always happen, and sometimes it's counterproductive.