• oyfrog@lemmy.world
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    3 days ago

    “become” implies it was something else to begin with. it started as a cess pool when it allowed slavery to persist past the declaration of independence.

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      3 days ago

      Yes in a weird way, I take heart in knowing that America’s politics have been super fucked up for most of its history. I know that sounds odd but most people I know seem to think things have just suddenly turned bad recently. I think maybe they were born during a brief respite is all. And I do think that with the fuller context, the arc of history bends in the right direction, yes, albeit with famous latency.