My pet theory is that we, as Americans, are taught very carefully to have no identity that supercedes ourselves. People talk about themselves as what they /do/. Not what community they share and are enmeshed in.

This makes us really good interchangeable economic units of labor
Reposted from Robert Black
The dark truth everyone's circling around is that it doesn't seem like the People care very much about democracy or the Constitution or the rule of law and it's extremely hard to see how anything good happens as long as that's true

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