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> Even very poor Americans who would literally have a much higher standard of living under socialism are taught to despise it.

Pretty much the same for people living in oppressed countries. They would benefit from at least some liberties but are taught to despise them (and the west for having them).

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I doubt it, I have met many people from such countries and far from hating the West for having liberties, they despite that the West wraps their resource extraction, geopolitical interests and exploitation as delivering liberties for domestic consumption.

The West has directly supported the overthrow of a fair number of rather progressive leaders, at least by world scale.

"And the west for having them" - nope. Thats a propaganda line by the US goverment, and lately by the EU right wingers. There are much better reasons to despise the West than the percieved "freedom" they have. Like their actual acts of genocides and exploitation.

Agreed, probably not for the liberties per se but rather for hypocrisy.

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