Quote Originally Posted by rory_20_uk View Post
I think it starts with the USA teaching such a biased version of its own history which divorces people from reality.
Almost all countries teach heavily biased national histories. It's a hard thing to overlook. The effects are just more salient when it comes to large and powerful countries, see: Russia.

Mind you, if the outlook of the early settlers had a summary "xenophobic extremists" would be pretty close.
Important detail: White Protestant xenophobic extremists.

Select manifest top policy priorities of the Republican mainstream since 2020:

Criminalize abortion
Criminalize birth control
Criminalize the upbringing of trans children
Criminalize "racially uncomfortable" pedagogy
Criminalize gay marriage

Next: Revoke judicial protections on interracial marriage?

Meanwhile, Vladimir Putin has promoted the full merging of Russian and American far-right propaganda by linking his accusation about Ukrainian evil biolabs with Q-Anon archvillain Hunter Biden. Here he is all but declaring the new Fascist International. Where else will he find allies but the Western fifth column?
https://twitter.com/SkyNews/status/1507333553448800309 [VIDEO]