there's this weird trend on here that wants to downplay the civic memory of American anti-fascism for godforsaken reason instead of harnessing it as part of the American civil faith
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Sharon ♨️🇨🇦
this isn't true, you moron. look up FDR's secret aid to the Spanish Republic or the lend-lease programs or the sanctions against the Japanese Empire
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=62UzLgdb1GQ
We must VOTE.
I don't want cynics for leaders and speakers. I want people who genuinely believe in the better angels of our nature and will do their best to persuade the rest of us to believe too.
That's worth something, when speaking of national sin and national grace. Maybe not everything. But not nothing either.
Perhaps not of a sort worth recommending, but faith nonetheless.
There is a ton of history to reckon with here but we need to live long enough to make that possible
*my parents are from his home town, yet he kind of sucks even if I am grateful for dozens of things. But yeah family of my parents generation see him like the Kansas City chiefs which is also the same Independence city where the stadium is in 🏟️
Know what historical event that we can all be really proud of? The time we all got together to beat the shit out of the Nazis!
The Nazis are thrilled to help elect the dude with the Jewish family members. They might have small hobgoblin minds but they aren't bothered by the need for ideological consistency.
But your view can build nothing. The US isn’t going to die, so agreeing that America is and can only be evil concedes America to the villains.
So if your proposed national myth is “this thing always has been and can only ever be evil” - nothing good can come of that.
maybe you are above any appeal of the idea of America, but most people aren't, and they're the ones you need to win
“We are different and better bc we’re from this place” is never justified