The US Has Two Faces, and This is The Luminous One

You could hardly find anyone anywhere in the world who isn't either contemptuous of the United States of America or furious at it.
This anger or hatred isn't directed at the United States itself nor at its people. People hate the policies it has adopted for addressing countless crises and problems around the globe, and more specifically, especially the brutal Israeli war on Palestinians in Gaza, as well as its war on Lebanon.
Can we forget that, for example, when US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken visited Israel at the beginning of the war and said that he had come as a Jew first, not as Uncle Sam’s Secretary of State?
We cannot forget this no matter how many developments will unfold, because this provocative statement was not just a phrase uttered by the man and reported by the media. It turned into the material policy of the US administration to any matter concerning the war or Israel.
The hope was that Blinken would put his religious affiliation aside and not allow it to shape his perspective on this war that began over a year ago. The hope was that the United States, as a mediator, would not abandon basic standards of integrity and fairness in its efforts.
The American Secretary of State wasn't merely making this statement or implementing policies regarding the conflict on his own initiative. He was voicing and carrying out the policy of the administration as a whole. His administration, both then and now, insists on maintaining its bias and refuses to leave the scene before it is complicit in the suffering of innocent casualties in Gaza and Lebanon. In fact, no one in this administration seemed moved by the fact that almost fifty thousand were killed in Gaza alone, mostly women and children.
It so happened that this unfortunate American position coincided with the early period of the US presidential campaign and continued into the end of the race. Since this was no ordinary race, the kind of contest we would typically see in the past, it garnered an unprecedented level of attention, dividing people worldwide between supporters of Kamala Harris and those hoping that Donald Trump would win.
A lot of focus has been placed on the unique features of the American political system, which have no equivalent in any other country. Thus, closely following the elections comes to reflect a sort of secret admiration for the country.
Is there any place in the world with an electoral system that fuses a peculiar system called the "Electoral College" into the vote count? It is peculiar because we know it was the reason Trump had been elected to the White House, in 2016, despite having received fewer votes than the losing candidate, Hillary Clinton!
This is not merely a random oddity. Another quirk of the US electoral system is that an American citizen living in the capital, Washington D.C., does not have the right to vote, for no other reason than that they reside in the capital, which the six founding fathers of the United States decided to make a neutral zone, preventing its residents from voting in elections. Hence, if you are in Washington, you can see the phrase "Taxation Without Representation" on some license plates. Indeed, the residents do not have elected representatives in Congress, neither in the Senate nor the House of Representatives, to oversee how their tax money is spent.
The peculiarities of the US do not end there. Citizens address their elected president with some sharpness, audacity, and authority. If the president asks, "Who are you?" the citizen immediately responds, "I am a taxpayer!"
Paying taxes gives them the power to confront the highest official of the executive branch and the freedom they deserve, because taxes are the treasury’s primary source of revenue, and because the elected president receives his salary from this treasury, and therefore, the citizens, (wherever they may be) addressing him pay the salary he receives from the federal treasury. All this demonstrates that the United States has two faces, one is its domestic face. It is luminous. The other is its dark or unjust face, and we are seeing it both inside the region and elsewhere.