Comment on how the world sees the USA, found on Facebook.

[muriel_volestrangler]

36. It dates back to at least June 2018; then attributed by an American public radio journalist to "Paul F. Haacker"

though he didn't say Haacker was a radio journalist. A right winger objected, and claimed it looked like Haacker was from New Jersey, though didn't show his evidence:

The Public Radio Journalist’s View of the United States
June 20, 2018/by Justin Katz
Perhaps it’s proof that cynicism is imperfect protection against naiveté, but I find it genuinely shocking that Rhode Island Public Radio political analyst Scott MacKay would post something like this on Facebook with implicit agreement:

“Here in Canada, many of us believe we are witnessing the fall of the U.S. empire. Would a civilized country limit health care or food assistance for the poor; leave crops rotting in the fields; destroy the educational system; target women and attempt to eliminate their reproductive rights while refusing to help resulting babies; abuse desperate immigrants; pretend to believe in Christianity while perverting and debasing its tenets; and refuse to protect the Earth from destruction? The world is watching.” – Paul F. Haacker

As far as I can tell from a quick online search, Haacker is actually a Jersey boy like me, not a Canadian, but it doesn’t really matter. That an American analyst for a public radio station would pass this along is what’s objectionable, and it is so both because he’s an American and because he’s supposed to be a political analyst. There is no analysis in the above quotation, and it certainly isn’t constructed so as to permit response and debate.

https://oceanstatecurrent.com/the-public-radio-journalists-view-of-the-united-states/