Reply #45: the USA is built on a mountain of violence, pain, and suffering [View All]

[ima_sinnic]

Land stolen from natives who had been here for eons, who were brutally and savagely massacred, raped, plundered, exiled, and marginalized--even their present-day descendants are treated like second-class citizens as their treaties are still violated and they are denied adequate education, job opportunities, and realistic social services.

Industry built on the backs of slaves who were rounded up like cattle in Africa and brutally transported to unimagined horrors, sanctity of family ties broken, culture ransacked and trashed, and this also continues to the present day, with all too lingering remnants of segregation and its aftermath resulting in undereducated, underemployed, and marginalized descendants who are underserved by social programs and opportunities.

Agriculture dependent on "illegals" who are both necessary for our cheap food supply but reviled as a "threat" to our "way of life" and therefore rounded up, persecuted, often killed.

And we continue to export our "democracy" to every corner of the globe as if we were somehow superior to the rest of the world on our mountain of battered, broken bones.

So USA is low on the "peace scale"? gee, what a surprise -- NOT. When greed is the foundation of everything, violence is not far behind.