In Human Psychology it’s a pretty well known phenomenon that those who loudly proclaim having certain virtues are the ones less likely to have such virtues.
If you go check the countries whose politicians loudly proclaim as having certain virtues (like being great Democracies or being a land of Freedom) that rule also seems to work pretty well.
We have “land of the free” in our fucking theme song how are we fucking that up?
You were never the land of the free, it was basically a mockery of freedom
Nah, we were substantially freer than most at first but that didn’t last long.
Don’t forget that “at first,” a certain privileged group may have been freer, but not everyone.
Even then most were still freer here simply because of how remote everything was.
In Human Psychology it’s a pretty well known phenomenon that those who loudly proclaim having certain virtues are the ones less likely to have such virtues.
If you go check the countries whose politicians loudly proclaim as having certain virtues (like being great Democracies or being a land of Freedom) that rule also seems to work pretty well.