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When I was a child, I was told that America was free cause it was the only country with a democracy.
Then you must be American. Only the USA never stops telling itself and everyone else it's the only free country. "The lady doth protest too much, methinks."
American and definitely feeling set up and lied to, with regards to the propaganda told to me when I was a teenager.
You see they had a little vote between themselves (8 Republicans and 4 Democrats) to make this totally fair, unbiased and democratic outcome.
American propaganda, telling children they have freedoms they'll never have, and be constantly gaslit to believe that they have them.
America has never been and has never claimed to be true democracy, it's quite notably a republic.
Yeah, I know. Hence my notion above about the propaganda issued to us, and how wildly incorrect that propaganda is, in all its forms.
That was the nature of what I was getting at with my initial comment. I apologize for not making that clear.