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Never mind that the cathedral's poison was so insidious precisely because it was bundled along with a bunch of actually-worthwhile ideals, responsible for our country's prosperity and leadership position in the world.
But I guess people like you are just too infatuated with destructionist grievance politics and a false dichotomy of blue authoritarianism vs red authoritarianism to wake up to the actual reality of our individual liberties being completely destroyed. Just as long as it happens to "those people" first, amirite?
It feels like I'm writing the same comments I was writing around 2014-2016, just to a different flavor of true believer.
America is big and powerful because it 1) has suffered only one catastrophic national event in its entire history (the Civil War), 2) has a huge abundance of natural resources and 3) managed to swoop in at the end of TWO different world wars back-to-back in order to cement itself as the party in the position to reap the most significant advantages. Not because it was universalist.