George<p>Put it this way.<br><a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/democracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>democracy</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/notdemocracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>notdemocracy</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/ushistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ushistory</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/usatoday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>usatoday</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/apartheid" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>apartheid</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/enslavement" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>enslavement</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/Indigenous" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Indigenous</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/colonialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>colonialism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/freedom" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>freedom</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/notfreedom" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>notfreedom</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/oligarchy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>oligarchy</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/BernieSanders" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BernieSanders</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/plutocracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>plutocracy</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/kleptocracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>kleptocracy</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/hegemony" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>hegemony</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/dictatorship" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>dictatorship</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/authoritariancapitalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>authoritariancapitalism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/JasonHickel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>JasonHickel</span></a> <br><a href="https://jasonhickel.substack.com/p/no-the-united-states-is-not-a-beacon" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">jasonhickel.substack.com/p/no-</span><span class="invisible">the-united-states-is-not-a-beacon</span></a></p>