Comments by "yapdog" (@yapdog) on "Debunked Russian conspiracy about the US is spreading in America" video.

  1. @Nigel Mansfield -- it's complicated. It can be difficult to see the roots of America's conspiracy obsession, but it goes back to America's original sin: slavery. I'll elaborate just a bit: Imagine for a minute that you were one of the powerful who enslaved a people. You'd do all kinds of things to keep those people from advancing, things like preventing them from learning, destroying their family systems, preventing them from owning land, and, in a nutshell, doing anything and everything to them that violates your own founding doctrines. So, would you be happy as those oppressed people gain freedom and greater voice? Of course, you'd then believe that things are being done to you. In fact, you'd spin it as "we're losing our country!" "they're taking our guns!" "they're attacking Christmas/Christianity!" and other such conspiracies where everything circles right around to "take our country back!" "make America great again!", etc. In such a climate, anything could be believed as long as it supports those false narratives, no matter how absurd. You'd breed a culture of belief in conspiracies. Why are many Americans unaware of this? Well, it's another perversion of our culture that seeks not only to deny our past actually happened, but also to deny that our past has any lasting effects. Don't believe me? Ask any "right-leaning" American their thoughts on Critical Race Theory. Then ask them what it is. Then ask them where it's actually being taught. Then take note of every politician from the state house to congress who're fighting against it. So, this conspiracy obsession was baked in at our founding.
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  2.  @nigelmansfield3011  Glad to help. I just wish it weren't so. Even Thomas Jefferson, a man who enslaved more that 600 people and wrote “all men are created equal,” believed that slavery presented the greatest threat to the survival of the new American nation. We've made it thus far, but we can see just how easy it is for this nation to fall. Putin knows this, which is why he continually exploits this weakness by targeting the African American community and uses American slavery to justify his ends.
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  3. So called Christian American patriots will believe any RWNJ propaganda. This is why Putin will ultimately succeed.
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  4.  @junesmith4159  We'll see. I'm still not convinced that those "patriots" would actually fight on the American side if push came to shove.
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