How to Destroy America in Three Easy Steps by Ben Shapiro
Author:Ben Shapiro [Shapiro, Ben]
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Publisher: Broadside e-books
Published: 2020-07-21T00:00:00+00:00
Chapter 5
The American History
American history has always been contentious ground.
The roots of American philosophy and culture can be found in our common history. But our history is replete with complexity: with heroism and vision, with idealism and bravery . . . but with victimization and cruelty, too. Because America’s history, like all history, contains shades of gray—because no person, no country, no nation can be universally good or universally evil across time and space—it is easy to mischaracterize the general thrust of American history. Viewing American history as a pointillist series of seemingly random evils and goods misses the point—it stands too close to the picture. Draw back, and the picture becomes clear. When we look at that broader picture—when we examine the histories of other nations and other countries, when we observe the suffering and barbarity expressed virtually universally—it is easier to see that American history is far more light than dark. In fact, it is fair to say that while America has participated in evils common to all humanity, America has brought to humanity immense good that is entirely unique. Without America, the world would have fallen to tyranny long ago; without America, the beauty of individual rights would have been completely subsumed by the collective long ago; without America, the notion of a multiethnic democracy would have collapsed long ago.
The Unionist history of America is a shared creed-based history of tragedy and triumph. That history is the story of American exceptionalism: why America is different. And that story is the story of our philosophy and culture, rooted in foundational ideals, expressed more and more broadly over time. It is the story of an American moral immune system, challenged by a series of brutal viruses that have sometimes brought the body politic near death, but ultimately emerging victorious, again and again. Each time the American immune system defeats a virus, it is strengthened.
In the view of Disintegrationists, American history is the fruit of a poisonous tree: a history that sprang from a corrupt seed, planted its ugly roots in foreign soil, and then grew, tentacle by cancerous tentacle. In the view of Unionists, by contrast, American history began with a uniquely magnificent seed. Over time, the tree that sprang from that seed grew tall, strong, true, unwarped. Yes, that tree had cancerous branches that required pruning—pruning that often came close to killing the tree itself. But over time, the tree was made healthier by that pruning. And the tree was strengthened by more and more Americans grafting their stems to America’s roots, thickening the trunk, making the entire tree more durable and more stable.
None of this means—again—that American history doesn’t have a dark side, most obviously in the treatment of Native Americans and black Americans. But it is to argue that in America, goodness and strength overcome horror—not in every instance, not immediately, but over time, thanks to adherence to founding philosophy and culture. The story of the United States is the story of the American founding—a founding
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