This should be a bigger news story.

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41. Yes, they have. Because citizens were misled into thinking THEY were the reason for the U.S.

Because, as writer/researchers like Ibram Kendi, Thom Hartmann and Congressman Sheldon Whitehouse now tell us, US settlers were not supposed to know that the American project was really a corporate project of European monarchs, given that
-- the U.S. Constitution was written to define human personhood for whites, 3/5 personhood for Blacks, and no equality under the law for anyone not white and male;
-- slave trade was the commodification of black bodies to build agricultural dominance worldwide.
-- eleven of the first twelve presidents were enslavers
-- public education was never written into the US Constitution as a fundamental right.

And so, institutionally and by design, "American" settlers were not to know their real standing until after the Civil War and WWI. They were sold on "this land is my land" blah blah, along with all the patriotic culture of fighting for some "crisis" when it was in the corporate interests for them to do so.

Blacks just got equality since 1965, and US women -- 52% of the entire US population, no less -- have yet to even get the ERA passed!

The fact that the GOP doesn't care about democracy has long standing roots. If we think hard about our corporate history, the bought GOP's lack of commitment to democracy is really not unsurprising. We've called them a wholly owned subsidiary of Big Corp for good reason. They'll even rewrite the Constitution in an Article V convention so they can finally win the corporate government that's been bought, bit by bit, for our entire lives. Yet we keep up the shock and outrage.

But we need to remember our side's claim: There will still be HUMAN consent of the HUMANS governed.

Our lawyer wars are as important as the Fascist war of Spain. Its outcome will change the West.