• Rentlar@lemmy.ca
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    20 days ago

    If the US as a whole can come around and actually begin a programme of actually caring for people over selfish profit, I can embrace them again. The scale of such a reform has to dwarf their first Reconstruction by a long shot.

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      If the US as a whole can come around and actually begin a programme of actually caring for people over selfish profit

      Did that version of the USA ever existed?

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        Did that version of the USA ever existed?

        No. The US was founded on genocide, grown through slavery, and profited off of exploiting EVERY other nation that they could for their entire history. They support dictatorships and genocide all over the world. Oligarchy and Patriarchy was baked into their Constitution (only rich white males had a say) and the Oligarchy/Patriarchy has never given up any real power since then.

        tRump has ripped off the mask for the whole world to see what the real US is, and only fools will forget what they have seen. I am certain the next tyrant the US votes in will be even worse.

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        The New Deal could be considered one time. Regardless of whether you agree with that, is there are reason that such a version of the USA could never exist?

        To me, it’s the greed, wilful ignorance and arrogance I hate, not the people.