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Why America is the World’s Most Uniquely Cruel Society
These emigrants all tended to share a common trait.
They were at the very bottom, the lowest rung, of social and economic heirarchies in their own countries. All of them. That has changed a little recently — but America was founded by and for the despised, loathed, hated. People referred to as trash, nobodies, serfs, exiles, outcasts — who were never given an ounce of respect, dignity, or even belonging, in their societies of origin.
So first the English and French settlers supposed that this New World was theirs (and began a kind of genocide against its natives, of course). But it wasn’t just the natives that they came to hate, for threatening their natural right to this Promised Land. It was the next waves of settlers, too. The English settlers hated the French. The French hated the Germans. They all hated the Irish. The Irish hated the Italians. And so on. That much is historical fact. Do you see the pattern forming yet?
This is very abstract, so let me make it concrete. Here came one wave of settlers — English. They dominated their way to the top of a hierarchy, above natives and blacks. Then came a new wave — German. They were punched down too — and began punching down — to bitterly establish themselves in this hierarchy, as high up as they could. Then another wave — Irish. Punched, punching down. All desperately vying for relative dominance among the rest.
You see, the crucial fact is that this didn’t happen elsewhere in the world — waves of settlers, all desperately trying to establish themselves above the next, last, most recent, in a hierarchy, all the more so, because they were despised, at the bottom, to begin with. In Europe, Asia, South America, heirarchies were long established — and broken only by revolution. America was the only nation where this constant reconstruction of hierarchy happened to such a degree, over and over again. Hence, the establishment of cruelty as a way of life — how else but to establish one’s self above the next wave of migrants?
Each new tribe that came to this Promised Land brought the burden of being despised, subjugated, oppressed, with them. They were finally above someone else in a social hierarchy. They were not at the bottom anymore. But to be above requires somone else to be below. And so there was a constant battle for relative position within a growing hierarchy — hence, dominance, competition, conquest soon became the prized cultural values, norms, and institutional goals. Cruelty as a way of life was born.
When we noted that the despised of England hated the newly arrived despised of France hated the newly arrived despised of Germany and so on, not to mentions natives, blacks, and Asians, in an endless vicious circle, we are also saying: America was learning to be cruel, by forever constructing greater heirachies to seize the fruits of a Promised Land. But greater hierarchies require greater cruelty to climb up, too. And the irony is that all this is what the despised came to America to escape.
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Those who came to this land with respect of and respect for American Democracy and
chose to educate themselves on the Civic and Civility of American Democracy are the people who are true to respecting American Democracy and the principles of Diversity and the Equality of Person as Individual. Those are the people who don't buy into and don't support racism and do not pander to nor accept racial and ethnicity prejudices. These are the people who detest white nationalism, fictions of white supremacy and stand against the ignorance of race and ethnicity bigots who promote such bias and vile.
Trumpism brought out and exposed for the world to see the grouping of those who embrace racist savagery, ethnicity savagery and anti-democracy. These types do not deserve to be in America, because they have no respect for American Democracy. They have not advanced over centuries, due to their historical pass down of savagery mentality by any means into their offspring's over many many many decades.
We saw the savages charge and attack the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6th, 2021 !!!! Demonstrating their Ignorance of what is American Democracy. They showed their worship to a belligerent self consumed glutton, driven by meglomania as the head of savagery, leading a cult by feeding their savage instincts, trying to install himself and authoritarian dictator.
