"For the sake of profit, we were starting wars, plundering wealth and resources, slaughtering innocent aliens? I can't believe humanity had fallen to this point."
Captain America's tone carried intense dissatisfaction and disappointment with the current situation.
As perhaps the most morally upright member of the Avengers, he had remained in an extremely divided state of mind ever since being thawed out.
On one hand, the patriotism he had received in the past made him instinctively want to do something for this country—uphold justice, protect civilians, fight terrorists, and so on.
But the more he learned about what the government was doing now, the angrier he became.
Especially those politicians who spent all day lining their pockets, putting on shows, and inciting division and hatred. They were practically parasites sucking the blood out of this country.
Thus, although the relationship between Captain America, once placed upon a pedestal, and the government could not be called merely strained, they were at least fundamentally irreconcilable.
Some media outlets controlled by capital and political parties had already begun constantly manufacturing public opinion to smear him, portraying him as an "antique" and an "Old Popsicle" who simply could not adapt to modern society.
Quite a few talk show hosts also mocked him as garbage that had been discarded by the times.
On the other hand, with the Internet's constant development and iteration, a vast amount of the U.S. Government's dark history, which had been completely inaccessible in the forties and fifties, was gradually being exposed.
Steve Rogers gradually came to understand that the homeland he had once considered incomparably righteous was, in truth, an evil empire composed of slave owners, war profiteers, and colonizers.
Forget that bullshit about justice.
Even the two main instigators of World War II had relied on resources sold by