> US was built by people who seemed to have a healthy fear of the extended groupthink sessions Nah. Slavery in the south was enforced by massive amount of forc

> US was built by people who seemed to have a healthy fear of the extended groupthink sessions Nah. Slavery in the south was enforced by massive amount of forced groupthink. They called themselves pro-freedom btw. See, limitations on slavery represented taking away freedom in their minds. And that conception stayed. And anyway, USA is far from actual freedom including freedom of speech. It does not even rank that well in international comparisons. It is just strong in calling itself free or freedom minded. And huge bulk of that we are freedom rhetorics is from authoritarian fascists