Posted on 11/03/2017 6:05:30 PM PDT by Ennis85
A year ago Donald Trump produced the biggest political upset in modern-day America, but were there historical clues that pointed to his unexpected victory? Flying into Los Angeles, a descent that takes you from the desert, over the mountains, to the outer suburbs dotted with swimming pools shaped like kidneys, always brings on a near narcotic surge of nostalgia.
This was the flight path I followed more than 30 years ago, as I fulfilled a boyhood dream to make my first trip to the United States. America had always fired my imagination, both as a place and as an idea. So as I entered the immigration hall, under the winsome smile of America's movie star president, it was hardly a case of love at first sight. My infatuation had started long before, with Westerns, cop shows, superhero comic strips, and movies such as West Side Story and Grease. Gotham exerted more of a pull than London. My 16-year-old self could quote more presidents than prime ministers. Like so many new arrivals, like so many of my compatriots, I felt an instant sense of belonging, a fealty borne of familiarity. Eighties America lived up to its billing, from the multi-lane freeways to the cavernous fridges, from the drive-in movie theatres to the drive-through burger joints. I loved the bigness, the boldness, the brashness. Coming from a country where too many people were reconciled to their fate from too early an age, the animating force of the American Dream was not just seductive but unshackling. Upward mobility was not a given amongst my schoolmates. The absence of resentment was also striking: the belief success was something to emulate rather than envy. The sight of a Cadillac induced different feelings than the sight of a Rolls Royce.
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Hey BBC! You F*cked up progressives have ruined your once great country. Mind your own business!
Too many “I”s to take seriously.
America ceased to be great, not at any single point, but as an evolution. America became increasingly irrelevant the more the liberals gained control.
We saved their a@@es from the Nazis and in the future we will have to save their a##es from the muzzies
November 08, 2016:The Day America Got Wise Again
Oh, some writer at the BBC was in love with Reagan’s America and smog-ridden LA (much cleaner now)??? Pull the other one.
Nobody’s interested enough to read the rest of this person’s words.
Progress - progress of, by, and for the American people - defines the greatness of America.Progressives subvert the thrust of progress in America by defining progress as growth of government which inevitably comes at the expense of the ability of society to progress.
The Great Society boast of LBJ was actually a boast of creating a great government. Great governments are a dime a dozen - great societies, not so much.
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