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But that's why they're afraid
'Murica was founded in ignorance, fear, stupidity and the idea that they could just steal a country because they were inherently better than everyone else
this post was submitted on 05 Jul 2026
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I was with it till the last sentence. As if the US didn’t have all these failings for centuries.
“American values” are a myth, and a popular one even among liberals, it seems, who somehow believe the US was a force for good prior to Trump.
That's what America has always been though? The whole point of the melting pot was to strip immigrants of their identity and assimilate them.
But even that was bullshit. Culture in the US changes rapidly across time, and takes influence not just from immigrants but from trends among the youth and international trends. It's a rapidly moving target.
Besides which, immigrants from all walks actively try to assimilate and integrate themselves into the larger community, where natural born citizens actively rebel against the culture of their parents when they become tweens or teens.
The culture war is and has always been contrived by ownership-class-owned media, including television evangelists and megachurches. Jerry Falwell turned fundamentalist Christianity into a voting bloc, got Reagan elected in 1980 by a landslide, and the culture war was on.
don’t live in fear
According to US historians, the philosophy behind the US was always about diversity, equity and inclusion, especially the postbellum US, when in Reformation the all men are created equal language was clarified as universalist.
Even before then, the concepts from the Enlightenment challenged the stratified society structure of the feudal monarchies. There was a general belief that slavery was a moral failing. However, many of the framers were slaveholders themselves, and even then the plantations were leveraging their wealth and power and lobbying to preserve the racist hierarchy.
Sadly, consolidation of wealth and political power was an impetus even then, and when we abolished slavery, the landowners did everything in their power to entrap their freed slaves into their former roles. When sharecropping and debt servitude failed, capitalists invoked the truck system, child labor, prison labor, immigrant labor (notably the Chinese, later, Irish and Italians, then the various Latins), and then moving factories to undeveloped countries that had weaker labor laws and bribable officials. Our current system of wage bondage, debt bondage and the suppression of labor has shown that common Americans have never really escaped serfdom. Only it's to corporations rather than unilateral liege lords.
This is to say, the current playbook is the same one it always was, just far more extreme and reactionary and backed by more wealth than ever before. (Rockefellers and Vanderbilts were never as rich as the top millionth of a percent we have today.)
ETA: And all that is to say that when Trump and the far right propaganda machine campaigned against DEI, it was openly abandoning the fundamental pretexts of the great experiment that is the United States of America. Trump wants to be king, but then so do all the billionaires that financed his campaign.
According to US historians, the philosophy behind the US was always about diversity, equity and inclusion, especially the postbellum US, when in Reformation the all men are created equal language was clarified as universalist.
All "men". Indigenous were not considered "men".
Settlement was tightly restricted beyond the 1763 limits, and claims west of this line, including by Virginia and Massachusetts, were rescinded.[47] With the exception of Virginia and others deprived of rights to western lands, the colonial legislatures agreed on the boundaries but disagreed on where to set them. Many settlers resented the restrictions entirely, and enforcement required permanent garrisons along the frontier, which led to increasingly bitter disputes over who should pay for them.[48]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Revolutionary_War
- Prelude to war
- Taxation legislation
The huge debt incurred by the Seven Years' War and demands from British taxpayers for cuts in government expenditure meant Parliament expected the colonies to fund their own defense.[48]
The revolution was, in a significant part, over the crown not supporting colonial expansion into indigenous lands.
Almost everything functional from postbellum was hamstrung in the following decades but the language was kept for the good PR. Hence Jim Crow laws.
The rest of your post is on-point 🫡
The data and media doesn't support this idea. The media is constantly race baiting.