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This liberal meme highlights the biggest flaw in liberal thinking. The false notion that the US was ever a force for freedom.
(hexbear.net)
The US has always been a country built on slavery, white supremacy, imperialism and propaganda. The country was always going to end up this way once it's economy ran out of things to pillage. Trump is a symptom, not the cause.
The first step of turning the US into a nation worth being proud of is to recognise these foundational evils so you can correct them.
Even before then, people that protested the genocide of Palestinians were definitely met with violence. So you couldn't even speak out against the government anyway if it was deemed a threat to the status quo.
Not only that, but communists and civil rights movements are always under threat of being "black bagged". People act like Malcom X didn't happen, like MLK didn't happen. It did, those people were murdered by the capitalist government for being too loud with their 'freedom'. People disappear in the US all the time.