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Wake Up, America!

2026-01-01 News & Politics
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Live-streamed: August 19, 2024 Richard Slotkin, cultural critic and historian, professor of English and American Studies at Wesleyan University, discusses his recent book A Great Disorder: National Myth and the Battle for America. https://www.wesleyan.edu/academics/faculty/rslotkin/profile.html https://www.hup.harvard.edu/books/9780674292383 Watch the Majority Report live Monday–Friday at 12pm EST on YouTube OR via daily podcast at http://www.Majority.fm The Congress switchboard number is (202) 224-3121. You can use this number to connect with either the US Senate or the House of Representatives. Send us IM messages during the live-stream with our free Majority Report App: http://majority.fm/app Subscribe to MR's daily AM Quickie newsletter: https://am-quickie.ghost.io Find all your MR merch at our store: https://shop.majorityreportradio.com Become a Majority Report member: https://fans.fm/majority/join More from the MR crew: Bryan Vokey: https://www.instagram.com/mrbryanvokey Matt Binder DOOMED https://www.youtube.com/MattBinder Brandon Sutton DISCOURSE https://www.youtube.com/@Th3Discourse Emma Vigeland ESVN https://www.youtube.com/ESVNShow Matt Lech LEFT RECKONING https://www.youtube.com/LeftReckoning Our alt YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/majorityreportlive

Top Comments (10)

@NOTSURE-m9i 2026-01-01

Emma just killed it on CNN. MSM is not used to guests with her courage.

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@RashedeGazzi 2026-01-01

As a child in the early 80s my school filled my head with American mythology of how superduper great this country is and has been. That teaching didn't match what my parents, grandparents, and other elders said.

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@danesovic7585 2026-01-01

You should have asked him about the myth of the chosen people.

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@jdotsalter910 2026-01-01

I was all in on the American Myth/"Exceptionalist Propaganda" and finished a masters degree in statecraft to get into foreign policy, ideally with the State Department or the CIA and i was interviewing with both. But during this time I was a black dude living on a native reservation for my wife's work and after digging into the political philosophy readings, and being on the colonial frontier where the exploitation is ever present, I finally saw through the myth of American Exceptionalism for what it really is: a racist, brutal colonial project and there is no other way around it. I was going to focus on aerospace strategy because of my years in the industry as a pilot, technician and mechanic, but doing my research I fell head long into the MIC, the billion dollar boondoggles that don't work or just destroy black and brown people in far away lands, in the name of profit. It's all a sham, a lie, and America's true colors are reemerging with the collapse of democracy and return to white supremacy.

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@joeleonard-w5h 2026-01-01

Myth is used by Oligarchy to make adults think like children.

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@RonanGallagherBand 2026-01-01

The great Muhammad Ali got it right when he refused to serve a country that segregated and oppressed his people. He was a true warrior. No myth needed.

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@feidreth2504 2026-01-01

"Settling" and "colonizing" have always seemed like myth words to me. "Invading" is a better word for both. "Settling" and "colonizing" are things you do on an uninhabited island, not a well lived in, populated place.

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@subcitizen2012 2026-01-01

The new American dream and manifest destiny will be for a anyone that manages to live abroad and renounce their US citizenship.

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@anoniemuss824 2026-01-02

The myths that MAGA is built upon: • America is a white Christian nation. • Billionaires are self-made. • America was ever great.

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@bpcking1 2026-01-01

I feel like my California education was well informed. We were taught the truth for the most part.

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