The history of the land is the history of America. My “cherry picking” is just pulling events that every American student gets taught in k-12 American History classes.
Some of it, conveniently leaving out the parts which conflict with your point of view. That’s the definition of cherry-picking…
Trying to divide the history as being that of a government rather than a land is impossible to do as the histories of governments are interwoven.
yet i easily did it
save the mental gymnastics for the Olympics in a few weeks, and just admit that you’re wrong.