And then there's the porous, vacuous statement made by those who know perfectly well they're distorting history, 'They hate us for our freedoms.' The right desparately need to see themselves and their country as 'victim' in order to rationalize their greed and violence. This is a secret to no one except those Americans who continue to choose to be blind and deaf to the cries of their actual victims. These are Authoritarian babies who are unwilling to grow up and take the same responsibility we all have to take as functional adults. To these people there is only a simplistic, binary understanding of their own existences; we are good, virtuous, true /they are evil, vicious monsters (because they are not on the 'us' side.) These are also the people who need a big Daddy figure to tell them what to do and who to believe, instead of stopping to do their own thinking and research. America's history of bloodshed has been on record for some time but many refuse to see it, let alone take responbsibility for it. This country has been riding on the tails of our original founders, centuries ago, in self-congratulatory vanity. It could have been a truly great nation if greed and that same vanity had not become the driving engine of our economy and identity.

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