America has always struggled between the ideas/ideals expressed in the Declaration of Independence and the preamble to the Constitution and the reality that our nation's founding documents were compromised by the enforced bondage of millions of people The idea that as a nation "manifest destiny" allowed us to violently and duplicitly steal the lands that had been the homes and that had provided the sustenance for other peoples for thousands of years. We have always clung to the idea, while often ignoring the reality. Maybe Joe Biden is coming along at a time when we are ready to move aggressively towards truly fulfilling the idea of America.
America was an idea. We've never lived up to it but we've never walked away from it before.https://t.co/VRCnKI0rfQ pic.twitter.com/xLuhhGyJVp
— Joe Biden (@JoeBiden) October 22, 2020
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