The American Revolution is the clearest example of the selective memory at work.
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The American Revolution is the clearest example of the selective memory at work.
The Founders are celebrated as visionaries who understood that some conditions make revolution not just permissible but obligatory.
They wrote this down. In detail. In a document that is treated as sacred.
"When a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such government."
Duty.
They used the word duty.
And then built a country that, over the next two and half centuries, made it its business to prevent exactly this principle from being applied by anyone else, anywhere, to any power the United States supported.
The right to revolution is the founding document.
The prevention of revolution is the foreign policy.
Hold both of those in your mind at the same time and tell me what you see.
posted by Satish Sharma at
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