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Americans with their 'greatest nation on earth' charade.
It has a name: American exceptionalism. It's used both by people who know it's a lie and by people who believe it.
So it worked!
Most of what people believe about America's history is post WWII mythmaking and revision. It's a shame because the labor movement in America has a fascinating history, and we're about to relive it.
The shoot-outs are going to be 100x better this time
Can't wait to be teabagged by a Boston Dynamics robo dog after it murders my whole family for paying my Amazon Prime 2 days late!
Not even that. Politicians in even just the generation after Washington deified the framers of the Constitution, even when the remaining alive ones protested against it.