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“America began with a great paradox: the same men who came up with the radical idea of constructing a nation on the principle of equality also owned slaves, thought Indians were savages, and considered women inferior.”
— Mar 28, 2026 12:31AM
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“The American paradox has once again enabled oligarchs to threaten democracy. They have gained power by deploying the corollary to that paradox: equality for all will end liberty. This was the narrative an elite group of slaveholders used to take over the government in the 1850s…defeated on the battlefields, but their vision of America moved West…where it gathered the strength to regain power.”
— Apr 01, 2026 04:42PM
