“Hmmm we’re running out of new ideas… what if we turned to the plagiarism machine? It wouldn’t recycle old ideas, would it??”

Both countries founded similarly by rejects, have approx the same landmass, genocided both native populations, enslaved people, Murdoch-owned media dominate both… is it really just (misinterpretations of) the 2nd amendment that make us so much worse on this point?

Yes and a refusal to believe that these Real Americans are themselves racist bc that would say something about the root of American identity that no respectable news outlet can utter

Not only did the halcyon past they hark to never exist; inasmuch as “single income, comfortable family of 5” did exist, it existed bc of very high top marginal, capital gains, and inheritance tax rates, combined with strong unions

Funny fact: the US has the oldest constitution, not bc it was first but bc every other country rewrites its constitution regularly