"Another factor, which rarely gets mentioned, but which appears obvious to people who didn’t grow up here, such as myself, is that many Americans reach adulthood with a set of values and sense of self-identity that is historically inaccurate and potentially dangerous. If you have it banged into your head from the cradle to adolescence that America is the chosen nation—a country built by a rugged and God-fearing band of Anglo-Saxon individualists armed with pikes and long guns—you are less likely to embrace other important features of the American heritage, such as the church-state divide, mass immigration, and the essential role of the federal government in the country’s economic and political development."
Read more: http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/johncassidy/2010/02/tea-party-usa.html#ixzz0g3
"Let's take back our country!"
Whatever the fuck that means.
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