Comments by "justgivemethetruth" (@justgivemethetruth) on ""America Does Bad Things for Good Reasons", - Christian Appy on RAI (1/5)" video.

  1. There are a few things I learned growing up that strongly affected me at the time, but I got no indication that anyone else I knew or who was in my life or scope that it mattered to others in the least, or it was somehow quietly accepted. The Native American genocide ( I did not even know the word genocide as a young boy in school ).  Black slavery.  Then I heard about the Holocaust ( something that was not American finally ).  And then as a teen I began to hear about Vietnam, and not only that but that I might be forced by our government to participate in that conflict. How is that not enough to fuck up the minds and traumatize anyone in our society, whatever side of these issues you thought you were on, to know that instead of contemporary secular modernity we really lived in the past.  A past that included more war, thievery, sadism, rape, destruction ... more than is even imaginable. Then, living in CA I had the chance to meet people from Viet Nam when they emigrated to the US when their country was totally ruined. Given those milestones of monstrosity in history, if you pay attention and read you learn to fill in the blanks and come to some kind of understanding, or terms with the barbarism of the world, and the hypocrisy of the West ( because it is not just America, though we may have prevailed in power after WWII for various reasons ). Instead of the beacon of hope for the world, every evil, dictatorial or greedy actor in the world focused  on our country, came here to American, invested, grew their evil in a place that was historically just as evil or more - the new garden of the new fascism. So we have two Americas, the inchoate progressive state that Real News, Oliver Stone, Thomas Frank, and many other write about and hope for, and the hard reality of money and how it has been used as a bludgeon to make the USA the most hated and feared country, despite our leading visions and free speech for all the good stuff. I don't agree with a lot of what RNN says or editorializes on, I see the world as complex and in a pragmatic light, but RNNs videos and visions are important in terms of showing people another way to see things and facts they do not normally consider.
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