Where to begin. Lying isn't something Americans do -- an activity -- but a state of being. America was founded on lies. I say that and yet I'm sympathetic. In no other way could America have come into existence. The founding documents were undoubtedly aspirational. This is good and bad.
The aspirations were good but it meant we were hypocrites. And instead of living up to the aspirations we got stuck in the hypocrisy. Some of the country did, anyway. And how. That would be the south, which went Orwellian. Slavery became freedom. Constraint opportunity. As in, 'right to work.'
Right became wrong. Desegregation set off a reckoning. Look at where we are now. Try to step back. We are the Confederacy. A nation of lies. Of bullshit. Of denial and compensatory attitudes of superiority, but with classism and racist recriminations. 'No, we're not the bad guys.' Well, hell yes you are.
The denial applies to the southerners and their allies within the country. And the country as a whole in its place. 'One nation under God.' What god would that be? The one that is raping the world for its resources? That blew up the Middle East for oil, profiteering and lies? The one that elected Trump?
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