What empire? All we have are Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands. Where there aren’t even any virgins.
Empire? We have half a continent.
Americans have never wanted to be empire builders. We threw off empire. With the exception of Teddy Roosevelt and a few folks during the “let’s all be empires days” of the late 19th and early 20th century we’ve wanted nothing to do with an empire. We’ve wanted to be the country that everyone left alone.
Except when we became national busy bodies who couldn’t help but jam, Jeffersonian democracy down everyone’s throat, and feed the fucking hungry, who then managed to breed themselves into a population explosion that is still going to haunt us for decades. Being the global Mrs. Kravitz sticking her face into everybody’s business like at Darron and Tabatha’s house does not make us an empire. It makes us pain in the ass global busybodies, who should shut the fuck up and go about running our country… and being a dominant economic power that gives us the ability to lead the best possible lives, preserving our life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
But that still isn’t an empire!
Sirhr