Identity politics makes for strange political bedfellows, but one thing on which virtually everyone on the left agrees is that the rise of the West and America is largely the story of the ever more effective oppression of the weak by the strong.
It threads together all of the anti-American leftist ideological movements: identity politics, WOKE, 1619, DEI, and CRT. In American classrooms, it stitches together a "Warts only" retelling of American history that hardly stokes pride and gratitude in being American.
Americans should take pride in the system of liberty our ancestors established that now delivers historically unprecedented levels of peace and prosperity.
The oppression thesis asserts that past and continuing systemic oppression makes America deserving of moral condemnation and unworthy of patriotic attachment.
Given the increasing dominance of the oppression thesis in American K-12 and college education, we should not be surprised that Gallup found large generational disparities in civic pride.
Americans 55 and older are more than two and a half times more likely than those between the ages of 18 and 34 to express that they are extremely proud of being American.
While there is certainly oppression in America's story, too often children and college students are not told of how Americans, not the American government, put an end to a variety of oppressive practices that were often protected by the power of government.
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