Destroying America's Past

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America is praised for being the land of the free, and the home of the brave. Everything America does is right and is what 's best for the world; when in reality it is what 's best for America. The United States has obtained the false image of being the best country in the world and has done terrifying, demoralizing actions to millions of people to get to where they are. America still to this day has laws and on going events that break the personal morals of the individual. From stealing land and resources from the Native Americans, to keeping African Americans as prisoner for slaves, the United States not only has a sinister past, but a horrifying future, if they continue down the path they are heading. America has become the unsympathetic black hole that they are because of the discrimination of blacks and women, the genocide of Native Americans, unjust laws that are currently practiced in the U.S., and the large abundance of flaws that cycle through their economic system.

To start off, America has a bad habit of treating people like they are
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Americans usually complain about the people that are passing the poor laws into effect in their country, when ironically, it is actually the Americans themselves who choose and vote for the political leaders who make these decisions. America is built on being a democracy and letting the people choose who their politicians are. One might ask, why do the people of the nation choose such low quality politicians to run their country? Well, the Republicans and Democrats, which are the two major political parties of the U.S., are so content with bashing at each other that they don’t put in the appropriate amount of time to conduct any plausible decisions for their country. This nation has too much competition inside itself therefore not letting it unify and function as one whole

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