• CalipherJones@lemmy.world
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    13 hours ago

    I can explain this one. Growing up in America, you’re constantly told that you’re a patriot simply because you were born here—like just existing in the same country where Jefferson, Franklin, and Washington lived 250 years ago somehow makes you part of their legacy. It’s pushed on you so early and so hard that you don’t even question it. You just go to school, and the first thing you do is stand and pledge allegiance to the state—together, as a group. It’s ritualistic. It functions like a cult mechanism. That’s how it gets ingrained.

    Most Americans do not have an understanding that they are being tread on.