Should be, but isn't.
Well in the end it matters what God thinks about our handling of history I guess...but in my opinion, we’ve been blessed as a nation and rewarded.
This largely has to do with the fact our founding fathers were obsessive about absorbing the lessons of history: the rise and fall of nations and empires...The causes, the frailty of human nature, of kings, and human governments....
Their wisdom allowed them to place mechanisms in our system so that we’re able re correct course as we stumble along.
Thomas Jefferson, a slaveowner penned the “Declaration of Independence” yet Martin Luther King Jr. was able to echo the creed “We hold these truths to be self evident that all men are created equal...” years later to address our failure to live up to what we claim we stand for...
King didn’t have to outright disown the Declaration itself due to the sins of its writer. That’s the genius of America.