#americanexceptionalism — Public Fediverse posts
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Trump, Paxton, The Founders, And America’s Long Excuse For Powerful Men
Stop assuming corruption defeats MAGA. America’s history shows powerful men, from slaveholding founders to corporate-backed authoritarianism, get a pass unless people organize for accountability.
#abolitionists #Accountability #AmericanExceptionalism #AmericanHistory #authoritarianism #corporatePower #CorporateWelfare #democracy #DemocraticSocialism #DonaldTrump #FoundingFathers #Healthcare #hiroshima #Inequality #KenPaxton #MAGA #MedicareForAll #moralityInPolitics #nagasaki #nuclearWeapons #Patients #politicalHypocrisy #PoliticsDoneRight #ProgressivePolitics #publicGood #publicOwnership #RepublicanCorruption #SallyHemings #selectiveAccountability #slavery #socialJustice #socialism #texasPolitics #ThomasJefferson #workers https://wp.me/p1OjMZ-p79 -
Trump Wants a Museum of Mythology, Not the Truth About American History
Trump ordered political warning signs outside the Smithsonian because honest history threatens MAGA mythology. Patriotism requires truth, accountability, and repair.
#AmericanExceptionalism #AmericanHistory #authoritarianism #BillOfRights #democracy #DonaldTrump #FoundingFathers #HistoricalRevisionism #HistoricalTruth #IndigenousHistory #MAGAPropaganda #NationalMuseumOfAmericanHistory #PoliticalPropaganda #PoliticsDoneRight #ProgressivePolitics #SlaveryInAmerica #SmithsonianInstitution #TrumpSmithsonianOrder #UnitedStatesConstitution #WhitewashedHistory https://wp.me/p1OjMZ-p5G -
America’s Suicide Pact
America’s suicidal march began long before Donald Trump. Trump and the buffoons around him are the inevitable final chapter of the decaying empire. ~ Chris Hedges, May 08, 2026
https://chrishedges.substack.com/p/americas-suicide-pact
#ChrisHedges #hypermasculinity #USpol #hypermilitarism #EpsteinClass #Trump #AmericanExceptionalism #Neoliberal
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The sweeping #censorship being (illegally) applied by #ExecutiveOrders issued by #DonaldTheDeplorable are attempting to (temporarily) rewrite #history - even at the #SmithsonianInstitution. https://www.express.co.uk/news/us/2094587/Trump-orders-smithsonian-museums-align-content-american-ideals
“#AmericanExceptionalism “ has always been a myth. Now it is a global joke! 😂
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"There is no solution to the gun problem, and little more to write, because Americans are addicted to firearms….. Americans love guns, and appear willing to pay the price in blood."
~ Stephen King
#guns #MassShootings #violence #AssaultRifles #AmericanExceptionalism #WhiteChristianNationalism
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/27/opinion/stephen-king-maine-shootings.html
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Greg Olear thinks that, before Americans snicker at the preposterousness of the king's coronation, we might want to look in the mirror:
"It’s tempting to snicker at Charles and this preposterous coronation ceremony. But what’s more harmful to a society in the 21st century, kings or guns? People in glass houses shouldn’t fire AR-15s."
#guns #USA #AmericanExceptionalism #AR15 #AssaultRifles #MassShooting
https://gregolear.substack.com/p/crown-dependencies-with-will-sebag
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In Chapter 1: American Exceptionalism of Myth America (Basic Books, 2023) historian David A. Bell indicates that Jay Lovestone and Joseph Stalin originated the idea of American exceptionalism in 1920, but in Democracy: An American Novel (1880, p.72) Henry Adams seems to capture an early precursor of the sentiment:
“Ah!” exclaimed the baron, with his wickedest leer, “what for is my conclusion good? You Americans believe yourselves to be excepted from the operation of general laws. You care not for experience. I have lived seventy-five years, and all that time in the midst of corruption. I am corrupt myself, only I do have courage to proclaim it, and you others have it not. Rome, Paris, Vienna, Petersburg, London, all are corrupt; only Washington is pure! Well, I declare to you that in all my experience I have found no society which has had elements of corruption like the United States. The children in the street are corrupt, and know how to cheat me. The cities are all corrupt, and also the towns and the counties and the States’ legislatures and the judges. Every where men betray trusts both public and private, steal money, run away with public funds.
Had a flavor of American exceptionalism been brewing for decades before Stalin’s comment? Adams’ posthumous Pulitzer Prize for The Education of Henry Adams (1907, 1918) in 1919 may have brought his earlier writings back to the public conscious for the 1920 citation?
Adams, Henry. Democracy: An American Novel. Leisure Hour Series 112. New York, NY: Henry Holt and Company, 1880. http://archive.org/details/democracyanameri00adamrich.
#american-exceptionalism #david-a-bell #henry-adams #jay-lovestone #joseph-stalin #myth-america
https://boffosocko.com/2023/03/12/american-exceptionalism-in-henry-adams-democracy/
