And no, that doesn’t mean tear it all down. Just that America is another empire in a long list of empires. Full stop. The empire does what is in the empire’s best interest.

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America is not a static thing across time. It represented different things to different people at different points in time. Perception shapes reality. We should frame our history in a way that enables us to effectively move forward rather than shackle us to the past.