The reason the "American" mythos is so strong & all-encompassing is that it has to be for the settler-colonial project to work.
We need the identity & the mythology of "America" because otherwise how can you get people to commit atrocities & then erase them while solemnly insisting that they are definitely "the good guys"?
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