Probably because they’re different Americans.
What 250 years does to a mf
Speaking of what Americans “forget”, I find it disturbing that this comment section seems to agree when it comes down to racism and white washing, but not a word is spoken about Native Americans.
Just imagine how devastating it is to see groups of immigrants fighting among eachother about equal rights. And your group, the only actual non-immigrants, get completely ignored. Not a word is spoken about them. Even by those supporting equal rights.
They assume it’s resolved and it’s a given that they have equal rights, unaware of the ongoing injustice and injury to native peoples. The media helps perpetuate this misconception.
Lifelong education based bias and whitewashing. History in this country kinda glosses over the “bad parts” that don’t follow the narrative.
I get that but is it not inherently known those who don’t pay attention to history will always repeat past mistakes?
Look outside. No it is not.
That only works if those people actually see the past events as mistakes instead of something to tweak and try again.
All history does, not just the US.
It all comes down to racism really. The civil rights movement in the 50s and 60s made some people pathologically angry. Alot of organization like the Council for National Policy, which is the parent foundation of the Heritage Foundation and many others were started as a result.
Those organizations have been working hard for decades to put their people into government, acedamia, media, and industry. Their approach is very authoritarian and fascist, buts its driving force is racism.
So fastforward to now, and we have an awful lot of hatefull propaganda being spread, we have politicians cutting school budgets to keep people dumb, we have non-existant labor unions to remove all resistance, we have universities putting out anti-vax studies, and we have “journalists” who no longer push back.
If you follow the money, it always leads back to one of these CNP think tanks and its always racist.
Jane Mayer wrote Dark Money almost a decade ago and it even more true today. At minimum, go read over some of the reviews or a summary.
Because those people are not the smartest cookies in the knife drawer.
I disagree. I think it’s because those people are being manipulated in every possible way. Smartness only gets you so far in resisting this.
What makes us different?
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I’m all about bad spelling today… Thanks mate.
Speaking of what Americans “forget”, I find it disturbing that this comment section seems to agree it comes down to racism and white washing, but not a word is spoken about Native Americans.
Just imagine how devastating it is to see groups of immigrants fighting among eachother about equal rights. And your group, the only non-immigrants, get completely ignored. Even by those supporting equal rights.
After the civil war in the United States, President Lincoln was shot and his election opponent Andrew Johnson who was from the party of the south took over. At that time the candidate with the second highest number of votes became the Vice President.
Once Andrew Johnson took over he proceeded to pardon nearly every confederate. Not just the poor soldiers on the ground, but the land holding slave owners who instigated the war.
Those people regained power in the south after the compromise of 1877 that ended Reconstruction and the military occupation of the south.
Their legacy is a cancer that has rotted the US democracy from the inside out.
Our failure to root out the use of racism to cling to power has been a consistent theme in the failures of our democracy.
Edit: it goes even farther back to Bacon’s rebellion as well. Back prior to he revolution when the ruling landowners began dividing indentured servants by race and treating them with different levels of privilege so they wouldn’t unite against them again.
On a whole we are very uneducated and extremely propagandized.
Because we made nation that onlys purpose is buying and consuming. Not actually living. We marked distraction on purpose make people easier to control. And then play the people and direct them as needed for the purpose of American business and Not for American humanity.
Your mistake is accepting that the American war for independence was a revolution. It was more like an “under new management”.
Conservatives, at their core, are and have always been monarchists.
One man started it all in the 20th century https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_W._Fifield_Jr
Because he said he would make things better for people, and many believed him. Now that they’ve hitched their wagon to him, it’s easier to believe that they did the right thing and that the world is lying to them, than to admit to themselves that they fell for a scam.
Extreme right wing political cult indoctrination via mass propaganda masquerading as journalism pushed for around 50-60 years that mirrors religious indoctrination. They use similar language, authoritarian hierarchy, preaching instead of questioning discussion, and undermining education to make it inaccessible and underfunded.
There were serious problems before that too with Jim crow laws, slavery, genocide of the indigenous peoples, etc. This is the current US form of that egocentric, unempathetic politic. A fox news demagogue like Jesse Waters talking about gassing vs bombing major US cities is both a dog whistle to racists because pluralism & diversity are strengths of major metropolitan areas, and Christian nationalists who lose power in big diverse communities when people can see for themselves the people they were told are evil demonic scapegoats are just like them.
There is similar extreme political cult behavior everywhere, but they are a minority and the systems of government that haven’t been updated since the filibuster reforms forces constitutional amendments to require a 2/3 majority instead of over 50%, the electoral college and gerrymandering preventing democracy, and higher religiosity in the US allowed this minority of the country to win elections.
America has always been an evil empire
