Finally, America’s history is under severe threat. The Disintegrationists claim that America’s traditional history is a myth: that the true story of America is a story of exploitation, that the ideals of the Declaration of Independence were a self-flattering parody when written, that the Constitution of the United States was meant to enshrine power hierarchies, as well as bigotry of all forms. America has been an imperialist monster hell-bent on world domination, a propagator of rapacious capitalism, a faux democracy. In this view, there is no history to bind us—in fact, history separates us.
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