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Please, stop.
How much more on the nose can you get than a western imperialist general named West More Land tbh
Bold of him to assume Americans can read.
More Americans have bet money on The Washington Generals to win the NBA (somehow) than have read Alexis de Tocqueville.
How about Alex de Tokerville he'll yeah 
I'm pretty sure "Americans haven't forgotten how..." is just a polite way of telling us we really really should know this.
When you try to help the Americans maintain a little dignity and they just go guffawing and a-hicking and thigh slapping all over the place.
Meanwhile the US president seems to be under the impression that Hannibal Lecter was a real person who died
Then from whence the Hannibal Directive?
he was a Great Man
I spent like the first 20 years of my life thinking Sherlock Holmes and Robin Hood were real dudes
I thought Robin Hood was too, until today. The Wikipedia article about historicity of a figure or figures called Robin Hood is pretty interesting.
The seed germ of the modern right wing media in the Anglosphere is their reaction to losing the PR war in Vietnam
lol, the only things most Americans remember about Vietnam are a mishmash of Rambo, Apocalypse Now, and The Deer Hunter; helicopters with cool background music; and the fake propaganda POWs
I know people that legitimate believe America won the Vietnam war.
All of them will also explain how you can't ever trust the government because all politicians are liars and crooks, while just taking every speck of state propaganda as absolute truth.
What I remember about Westmoreland in Vietnam was him saying a bunch of demonically racist stuff about how the don't respect life like The West does
Alexis de Tocqueville sounds like - which I am sure most Americans have noticed - a typical Hufflepuff.
If there was a French Canadian in a Harry Potter book this is what Joanne would have named em
I don't think most Americans have even heard of de Tocqueville at this point
Which season of The Bachelorette was he on
I'm going to be honest this is the first time I've ever heard of him
They probably have you read a heavily edited quote from Democracy in America and go "This will be on the Scantron, question 5, fill in B"
That was my experience. Every time we covered the American Revolution or 18th century America in middle school or high school history he was just name-checked and maybe get a one or two sentence quote from Democracy in America.
Of course, the "tyranny of the majority" is written into the laws of the universe, so there's no need to engage with writing on it that tries to present arguments that could thereby be refuted.
can confirm, i'm american and i haven't read him, i haven't even read locke, i'm a phony, a pseudointellectual
Alex is de Tocqueville? What?
Most people haven't read Tolkien, we definitely didn't read Tocqueville.
I wouldn't be surprised if there are people who know this, but they probably either don't dare to speak, benefit from not speaking out or are purged.