There is talk of the president wanting to annex multiple foreign governments, and at the same time there is talk here within the Technocracy movement about appealing to the people of the country by Americanizing our movement and making flags with red, white, and blue colors on them. While this may work in increasing the number of people willing to identify as technocrats, this strategy has very recently led to ideological hijacking such as the patriotic socialist movement that tried to americanize socialist ideas, but instead devolved into an incomprehensible and mostly right-wing frankenstein movement once the patriots joined. While it can be a valid strategy to support nationalism in some countries to increase appeal of an ideology, there are some characteristics about the nation-state of America that make it incompatible with left-wing ideas at its core.
The first thing any decent leftist group will tell you about the United States is that it is a settler-colonial nation. This means that when White colonists came from Europe, they violently displaced the original population of this continent and engaged in genocidal policies to limit the well-being and population growth of any person who was not white. They had an idea similar to what Nazi Germany had with Poland, that over time they would breed out or exterminate any ethnic group in the country who was not their own, and eventually be able to claim the entire landmass for their group. I’m not saying this to cause discomfort to any person, but I think it is important to be aware that American national identity was always defined by this history, and even minorities in this country have a lot of culture based on resisting this and we even see the spirit of settler-colonialism reflected in modern day gentrification of black communities and the theft of Native American land which continues to happen to this day. Many portrayals of the early US are romanticized or heavily biased because only White citizens would have been able to leave official accounts or even been allowed to be literate. Many citizens of this country read about these events in history books but the significance of them is downplayed or a cognitive dissonance develops causing them to not fully realize what it means to the society they live in.
To be clear, I am not suggesting that technocrats take on an anti-american stance either because that would be alienating to most people. However, keep in mind that this country had its entire military declare on oath to defend its constitution from both foreign and domestic threats, which could very easily be technocrats one day. We are advocates for a futuristic and more progressive government system than the world has seen yet, and giving technocracy an American aesthetic is comparable to revolutionaries against a monarchy wearing crowns and sitting on thrones. I believe that the people who choose to follow us will do so because they realize that the old ways do not work, and want to try something new.