Progs and cons both misunderstand this. Many progs lack intuition of the importance of harmonizing belief with action—I do not mean to say they are immoral "hypocrites", but that belief uninformed by practice is gobbledygook at best, and more usually malicious lies.
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"American experiment" may have made sense when America had agricultural economy and frontier, and was primarily settled by seafaring mercantile Germanics (with a few cotton-growing Normans, hence the war)... but we are grown up and urbanized now, and must accept this.
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Besides, "American experiment", federated constitutional republic and so on, has been so widely adopted that it no longer seems appealing ("Seinfeld effect"), and there is enough unappealing about our politics that many dream of alternatives. Foundation must be solid!
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And American experiment of independence has close "control": Canada. Which has its problems, but is not Qin. The War of Secession must be narrativized in nationalist terms—otherwise it reads as nonsense!
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This does not mean to throw out "American value of freedom"... we are a people of mountain, steppe, and sea! We are not rice farmers! But America (Usonia?) is not simply the Constitution. Nor does it mean le ebic oberthrow gobarmnint XDDD teh, which won't happen.
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there's so many more reasons to hate the Irish
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Strangely, when people think of previous American experiences of mass immigration, they don't think of the Irish passing the hat around for foreign terrorist groups up to the '90s
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"we do not hate all the Irish just because of Kennedy shayātīn" Speak for yourself
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