

And on top of this, a dangerous rhetoric I keep seeing/hearing from the Right is that “the left has taught America to hate itself”. This is dangerous because any criticism, even those intended to improve the country is considered a “problem”. After all, all we need to do is just say America is great, without actually doing anything to make it so.


















Truly though, I thought they were making a connection between a nation built on slavery and genocide, fomenting much of the coups and dictatorships of the 20th century and recent failures. I thought they were just pointing out that there’s a pattern, and that it’s rooted in our country’s history.