There have been many different eras in America, and although the current one is terrible, there will be another, one way or another.
When you see America as being a single static thing, you view it as an unchanging monolith that has never had periods of time where elements of it were better – making it so that the only choice you have is to “love it, or leave it”.
But these are faulty views, and that is a false dichotomy. We are participants in the history of the country, not merely spectators. Through collective action we can change its direction. We did this before via blood, sweat, and tears in the first gilded age, and we will have to do it again here in the second.
There have been many different eras in America, and although the current one is terrible, there will be another, one way or another.
When you see America as being a single static thing, you view it as an unchanging monolith that has never had periods of time where elements of it were better – making it so that the only choice you have is to “love it, or leave it”.
But these are faulty views, and that is a false dichotomy. We are participants in the history of the country, not merely spectators. Through collective action we can change its direction. We did this before via blood, sweat, and tears in the first gilded age, and we will have to do it again here in the second.