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6. Because they believe that God gave America to white men.

Tue Jan 7, 2025, 10:01 AM

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The entire U.S. mythology is built around a fantasy. It's a fantasy designed to cover up the actual facts.

This legend tells that white men and their families were sent to America by God in order to build a special, wonderful nation. Using only their strength and the power of God, these white men hacked their way through a dangerous wilderness and built homes, farms, and a nation. They did this as rugged individualists, with no help from government.

You can see (1) how this myth is designed to cover up the actual facts of genocide, enslavement, indentured servitude, etc., and (2) how this myth keeps people from accepting the idea of government as a coalition of people working together. "Rugged individualists" don't want that.

We can see how this myth leads straight to Trump. Or, rather, how the people who wrote Trump's scripts used our mythology against us.

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