EVERY. SINGLE. AMERICAN has been mislead. American was never a free country. America was never even a sovereign nation. We are still secretly a British colony. Just look at quotes made by a man named Jonathan Williams (who was the first superintendent of United States Military Academy) talking about America being a citadel for world government within 200 years (sounds familiar) and still holding allegiance to the royal family.
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