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RockRaven
(17,620 posts)Tree Lady
(12,534 posts)That more Americans are less proud of their country, I say NO SHIT!!
WhiskeyGrinder
(25,286 posts)Hey Joe
(97 posts)and cruelty being displayed with such celebratory glee by our own politicians and their cronies on a daily basis. And all for the pleasure of the president whose narcissistic whims demand it.
Never seen anything like this in my almost fifty years of paying attention to politics.
GoodRaisin
(10,323 posts)They do un-imaginable evil every day.
Solly Mack
(95,268 posts)BWdem4life
(2,547 posts)and as others have pointed out, our country has never lived up to its lofty ideals. But yes, the shit has kicked into overdrive under rump.
róisín_dubh
(12,068 posts)And enslaved black Americans suggests we always have been.
Looking the other way whilst our government supported the torture, rape and slaughter of hundreds of thousands of Guatemalan Indigenous and leftists suggests we always have been.
And rinse and repeat in Latin America, Asia and Africa.
Millions of Americans are selfish, racist and intellectually lazy and always have been.