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Being born in 'Murica seems to be a contributing factor

Honestly, I really don't think it can be. When you scrape away all the paint and polish and just look at the actions of our nation it's actual values are very evident and consistent. Property and money have rights, people only get them by having the two. Success is measured by the amount of defeat you deal. As things that benefit everyone are considered losses.

After 180 years of fighting for equality, women still have less control over their bodies than I do over what's allowed on my property. When public works are sold as a universal good, they almost always work in an exclusionary way. The poor side of town where a bus route is most needed will have half as many stops as the business districts that no one takes the bus to. Almost all crimes can be paid for, allowing you to commit them so long as you afford them.

These aren't new things, this has been happening since day one and we've spent twice as much learning how to make it look pretty than we'd have needed to fix it. It's the makeup and masks that hide the disease as we tell everyone else they're lesser for marching gawdy attire. Every black man dragged behind a truck, ever child raped by their parent, every homeless person beat by the police has been in service to the true ideals we hold.

The makeup can't replace the person, it needs it to exist. If we want an america that isn't a wretched, soulless walking corpse we have to kill it, bury it, and salt the ground around it so it might never feed new growth and replace it with the values we actually want. We'll never be able to cut enough of the rot away to save the body that exists, it will always be a disgusting game of racist, Nazi Wack a mole.