How progressives have convinced us America is evil

This is an emotionally resonant pitch. Traditional Americanism suggests that while our system has never been perfect, it has grown increasingly so and this means that it should be easier to succeed today, without the obstacles of bigotry that have plagued our history, than ever before. That worldview places an awful responsibility on individuals: If you fail to succeed, you can certainly blame personal disadvantages, but it becomes difficult to blame a miasmatic, existential, systemic, flag-draped boogeyman haunting your dreams. Additional freedom means additional responsibility.

If, however, all disparity can be chalked up to the system, then personal responsibility becomes a secondary concern. Failures are no longer individual, but systemic. In fact, every failure becomes an additional brick in the wall of evidence against America.

This outlook has become a rote part of radical Democratic politics: the notion that a coalition of the supposedly oppressed must rise up and rewrite the entire nature of the American bargain. Thus Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand announces that resistance is female, intersectional and powered by our belief in one another. Sen. Kamala Harris of California explains that identity politics shouldn t be eschewed in fact, she argued, the phrase itself was designed to minimize and marginalize issues that impact all of us. As former Texas Democratic representative Beto O Rourke, the id of the Democratic Party, put it in 2019, this is a country that has been defined by foundational systemic endemic racism since the very founding of this country.

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Ben Shapiro.