The preferred historical narrative

Jeff Goldstein writes that Obama

has been conditioned to believe the US is the world’s most offensive bully, that it was born in genocide, expanded through colonialism, enriched through slavery, and entrenched as a superpower by wars of aggression — its citizens held captive by an economic system that is at once coarse and systemically “unfair.”

To which a commenter asks Jeff, "So what exactly is your preferred historical narrative?"

Jeff replies,

That it was born by a revolution against centralized control, that it expanded through constraints on such controls and a promotion of liberty and opportunity that saw some of the most remarkable advances in history come from a free, industrious people imbued with a solid work ethic, that it transitioned from a country that had allowed slaves to one that has spent billions of dollars fighting racism and poverty, either real or perceived — and yet some leftist shitheads still take a dump on it every time they can.

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