Drummie123
Verified User
When did you know that America was not as great as RW'ers think it is?
How did you know this?
Was it a sudden event? Did someone tell you?
Was it always your belief since before you were of school age?
Was it part of the belief system of those around you or did it dawn on you gradually over the years?
I'm trying to learn about you. Not to bash or criticize, but to try to understand.
I will give you my story of how I came to love America.
It was part of our cultural indoctrination and everyone I knew and respected, of all races and genders and ages and ethnicities and occupations and sexual orientations and socio-economic classes and levels of education and religious beliefs or no religious beliefs and from every part of the USA, all just assumed America was the best country and whatever we did was good and was done for good reasons. And that if America was behind an idea, that it was for good reasons.
There are things about America that weren't ideal, I discovered as I grew older, but generally speaking America was great and good.
Our government was the best form of government. Our economic system was the best. Our Constitutional freedoms were unique and the best system ever invented.
And our system was great also, because we allowed people with different ideas to express themselves freely and we could get along despite the fact that others with different opinions on things might have thought America was not great.
But now, those who think America is crap are threatening to make America fail. And they don't realize it or they don't care or they WANT America to fail.
And to me, anyone who lives here and tries to make America fail is like someone in a rubber life raft on the open ocean who shoots holes in the raft.
They will sink America and they will sink me, but they will also sink themselves.
And this is something I can't understand.
How did you know this?
Was it a sudden event? Did someone tell you?
Was it always your belief since before you were of school age?
Was it part of the belief system of those around you or did it dawn on you gradually over the years?
I'm trying to learn about you. Not to bash or criticize, but to try to understand.
I will give you my story of how I came to love America.
It was part of our cultural indoctrination and everyone I knew and respected, of all races and genders and ages and ethnicities and occupations and sexual orientations and socio-economic classes and levels of education and religious beliefs or no religious beliefs and from every part of the USA, all just assumed America was the best country and whatever we did was good and was done for good reasons. And that if America was behind an idea, that it was for good reasons.
There are things about America that weren't ideal, I discovered as I grew older, but generally speaking America was great and good.
Our government was the best form of government. Our economic system was the best. Our Constitutional freedoms were unique and the best system ever invented.
And our system was great also, because we allowed people with different ideas to express themselves freely and we could get along despite the fact that others with different opinions on things might have thought America was not great.
But now, those who think America is crap are threatening to make America fail. And they don't realize it or they don't care or they WANT America to fail.
And to me, anyone who lives here and tries to make America fail is like someone in a rubber life raft on the open ocean who shoots holes in the raft.
They will sink America and they will sink me, but they will also sink themselves.
And this is something I can't understand.