No, wrong again.
You are making incorrect assumptions as to what it was I agree with in your post.
I have gone a few very short rounds with AW but overall I don't have any issues with him. Compared to some of his comrades here he is a kinder person. I don't however agree with his idealized stance on the world.
But your earlier post was not at all as you describe, not similar to the one above.
To a great degree I believe you are correct in stating that it is much harder to see a country clearly unless you live there, especially more so for Europeans and to a great degree, even some Canadians that veer closer to the Euro idea of socialism, rather than ours.
There are a great many Canadians that do the same, speak negatively of the US and I don't agree with them either, other than the odd point here or there.
I am 90 min from your border and am far closer to some areas of the US than you are. We were all brought up here on American culture and have spent a great deal of time in the US so we have a
boots on the ground understanding of it, so to speak.
Going back to AW, despite our not agreeing on much he is one of the few that I think had a far better understanding of Trump than most on the progressive left.
Where I do agree with you is your claim that such progressive views will never gain hold in the US. I have long said to Bernie Sanders supporters you are wasting your time. Had he been in Canada he would have faired far better.
Indeed, he just gave approval to Jagmeet Singh, the leader of the NDP party here. Thats the party that AW, TheAlt, etc would have voted for if Canadian, I suspect.
I have met and had a few conversations with Jagmeet Singh and he is a very lovely man. I met him in the field of law before he became a politician. IF he had been a Liberal or a conservative, I would have voted for him in a heartbeat but I will never ever vote NDP.
Now if I care to be a bit ornery, I shall suggest that you need to get out and travel a bit. First stop? Canada. Other than Quebec, we are much more Americanized than you seem to grasp.
Indeed, I would have to say that what drives Canadians crazy about the US is that we have been swallowed up by your country. Our news, our politics, our TV, our culture, etc, etc, etc is American so to suggest that a Canadian is unable to relate to the US and understand its politics is at best, terribly naive and to some degree, patronizing in its stupidity.
Where I do agree is with the notion that much of the world has an idea about America that is quite unrealistic and I have long been a fervent supporter of the US. But yes, I have forever been astounded here by not only the Europeans that have fed into such negativity, but even more so by the Americans here themselves that have done so.
But I understand peer pressure and believe a great many of them have fallen to such.
The time I feel they have all wasted, not only of their time but my own, reading such drivel has gone to waste for where I do agree with you, is as stated above...
Your idea of "tear it all down" shows typical "progressive" naivety, and really just illustrates that you have no vested interest in the USA. Logic before idealism.