American History, statues, and our "heroes".

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4. Worse even is that we are constantly in "an election cycle".

Elections have become big business and as such, they are constant. I mean COVID-19 has truncated our current Presidential cycle, which I think is actually a good thing because the election cycle for 2016 began in 2014, which was an election year for at least the House, and part of the Senate. Therefore it can be "Never a good time, because we will lose the House, or the Senate, or the Presidency, or a Governor's race, etc...."

Our history is no better or worse than other country's. Every country has some kind of "exceptionalism" myth. I think because we are younger than some countries, that there is higher religiosity here, and we have not experienced the total devastation of modern wars, that there is an added sense of "divine purpose" that blinds us to our failings.