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When I read McConnell's claim that "American pride was at its lowest point in 20 years", I was skeptical. So I googled it (https://news.gallup.com/poll/312644/national-pride-falls-record-low.aspx). Turns out he's right about the measure of American pride. Gallup's poll shows that pride in America was remarkably steady from 2000 through 2016 - hovering around 80-85% year after year. Until Trump took office. Then national pride fell 20 points in 3 years. I wonder why?

There are days when I am grateful for the TFG era, for forcing our hidden caste system into bright light. I and so many other privileged white people could begin to understand what we did not know. Much of it was not taught in the Virginia schools where I went to high school, especially anything about oppression of any non white culture. I have been an adult for a long time and certainly could have found out about these things. But I was “busy” believing voting rights acts, and months celebrati…

The history I was taught in lily-white Glendale, CA, in the ‘40s and ‘50s, started with the Pilgrims, moved quickly to the founding fathers (emphasis on fathers) and jumped to scenes of wheat turbines spewing out our great agricultural products to show how prosperous and down to earth we were. Good clean soil, no dirt, especially on our hands.

And slaves were mostly happy agricultural workers who were, by and large, treated well.