Well, don’t stop studying. The unalienable rights of man and the foundational belief America was founded on was a fragile structure and fought against viciously. The belief actually started in 1649 after a long Revolutionary War by the Puritan Separatists who cut Tyrant Charles the First head off and first the House of Lords. Unfortunately, Tyrant Charles the Second returned in 1660, with aid the oligarchs who invested in this companies that trade slaves and tobaccos and set up the Colonies, and investment took off once again. He called himself King Charles and had the aristocrats back in power (who were the oligarchs), who then reconstituted the myth of the happy, benevolent and jovial Monarch, which is what we have today—-stuck with these stupid period pieces celebrating “the crown” and fancy dress balls of the oligarchs —sorry I mean aristocrats.
They took over, set up their own Constitution which was like our Declaration, renaming the King “the tyrant” whose for the people to live under “the oppressions”, the exact same language as in the American Declaration. The Southern states fought viciously against implementing the inalienable rights of man into their state constitutions, unlike in the North where slavery was abolished by 1804 in their states. Each state had to decide to keep their word to instantiate the values in the Declaration or not, and the South chose not. They established state constitutions that hardened their oligarch order and eliminated most whites from voting. In order words, they never structurally enacted democracy in some of those states at all, but maintained British law that was made under permission of the King. They started with genocide stealing nation state after nation state from the established countries of the American Indigenous Independent people, decade after decade expanding westward, with Jackson genociding The Creek people in the early 1800s, kicking them out of their own nation, then selling off the land (in Georgia) for cotton growers who brought slaves in, blacks who represented the opposite of Freedom, Humanity, and the ideals of natural Unalienable rights. He went on to genocide the Chickasaw and Cocktaw out of their established nations, selling off the land for the same purpose. The eradication, like you see in Gaza, went on in the US until the auctions of the nations in the Pacific Northwest when the land bureau sold off the nations of 30 established nations they conquered and stole the land from.
I was one delusional, soak in the myth of America westward expansion and the Manifest Destiny of white people. But those myths covered a fiendish plot to steal established nations and and then auction of the land off of the conquered, moving the survivors from those wars on to the worst plots left while looking benevolent in granting them landing after stealing their countries. The Israelis have been using this tactic in Israel since 1920, encroaching more and more, until now the process is nearly complete, with Gaza being emptied. The American indoctrination of the “Native Indians” finally ended in 1986, when the US government shut down the last of the schools they put the “Indian” peoples in after stealing them from their parents, cutting their hair off, erasing their various different established religions, forcing them to serve in the wars, and bonding them into service of whites as housemaids in places like Southern California. That type of ethnic genocide of child theft and mental ethnic eradication started systematically in the 1890s and last for 90 or so years.
I’m an American, but that doesn’t mean I will cease to recognize the pain and humanity of others. I don’t have to agree with my government has done and does. Speaking out and speaking up is the only way forward. Most of the world contains oppressive sovereigns and rules, pushing the people down. But how you as an individual look up and treat the poorest and repressed reflects who you are, not the line of the government and news outlets, whether on Fox or NBC. You are clearly questioning yourself and the world around you, taking brave first steps on a path that you rightly see as sometimes lonely. But you assuredly are not alone. I hope you can continue on rise. Best of luck to you.