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I like to believe there's an alternate-universe America where it's Ed Snowden who is filling stadiums to hear him speak, and Donald Trump who has been exiled to Russia. It feels more like the America I grew up believing in.

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Having attended public elementary school in the 1970's, it would seem we were fed a very optimistic, filtered version of American politics.

Schoolhouse Rock's presentation was very selective.

I'm sorry Schoolhouse Rock did not give you a complete and definitive understanding of human political order...

To be fair, it did give me great clarity on the topic of conjunctions.

You grew up in a America that exiles people to Russia?

Snowden did.

The US did not exile Snowden.

https://legal-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/exile

De facto exile, they cancelled his passport.

Did they exile him to Russia? This was the opening of this thread.

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