"Embodied by the vicious, who themselves are activated by the amoral and the ambitious, our illusions are in full rebellion again, and white supremacy is the barbarian leader of them all."

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Charles Pierce on how our illusions — America the good, America the exceptional, America whose history is a tale of goodness, America the color-blind, America the religious and moral — are killing us:

"Our illusions are killing us, one at a time or in great numbers, over and over again. We have armed them again and placed them in new body armor and set them off at war against ourselves."

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