Idealized America is right! Europeans came here seeking to escape from monarchies and dictatorships in their home countries. They yearned for freedom of religion and from religion. They yearned for a more egalitarian society. Then they promptly polluted and destroyed those ideas with the enslavement of Africans, and the genocide of Native Americans so we could take their lands!  Then white America went to war against each other to bring slavery to an end. But the Civil War did not end Jim Crow laws and the discrimination embedded in our institutions and society. American history is filled with these highs and lows, where we come close to being all we can be than fall and fail miserably! With the election of Trump and the marriage of religion and politics, America has again failed and fallen to another low. Money and power have been busy destroying our Democracy for years. Will we pull our heads out of our butts or is this finally the end of America? The next few years may reveal all!