[Baynative]

This entire piece should be read and passed on to others.

[gattaca]

Something positive for a change!

[KC_Lion]

Ping SkyDancer!

I am sure you can share some stories too! (HUGS!)

[SunTzuWu]

Bookmark.

[hosepipe]

" What are these values that make America exceptional? Individualism, not collectivism. Patriotism, not relativism. Optimism, not pessimism. Limited government, not the nanny state. "
" God, not Caesar. Faith, not secularism. E pluribus Unum, not multiculturalism. Life, not death. Equality of opportunity, not equality of outcome. Goodness, not moral equivalence. "
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Exactely.. thats Exactely what has been LOST.. not obscured, covered, changed, or HIDDEN....... but LOST...

Once the Constitution is lost.. America is lost.. AND the U.S. Constitution's Charter has been disassembled LONG AGO..

The entire reason FOR having a COnstitution is to LIMIT THE FEDERAL GIVENMENT...

LIMIT the federal givernment.. to make IT a vassal to the States.. to serve the States..
INSTEAD; the States NOW serve the Federal Givernment.. the Complete Opposite..

Because thats what Democracy is all about.. centralized gov't..
The whole reason for a democracy to exist... (and DEMOCRATS)..

Yes.......... the complete opposite..

[Gumdrop]

This is a truly amazing country, I have always been grateful for the opportunities my ancestors had, who came to the USA between 1845-1869. Most were humble peasants who were not the first-born sons.

Within one generation they were bankers, dentists, teachers, etc. None of that would have been possible if they had stayed in Europe where the class system was still entrenched.

My Mother was very aware of the wonder of America, and she often would get teary-eyed when she saw a flag, saying that she thought it was the most beautiful flag in the entire world.

The article touched me a lot. My Mom was a staunch conservative, and a devout Catholic. My Dad died young, and she kept on working and insisted we all [7] get to college. I am so grateful for my parents, and great-grandparents who sailed the Atlantic for a new life in America. May God bless our country, and continue to watch over us.

We need to pray for a miracle that this country returns to the values that made this country great.

[Teacher317]

It is startling and abhorrent that half of this nation will argue fervently against this beautiful essay.

[LouAvul]

Our freedoms made us unique. And it's these same freedoms the communists used to unravel our culture beginning in the 60s. And the ragheads are using our freedoms to infiltrate and destroy.

Ironic, isn't it?

[backwoods-engineer]

America WAS the greatest nation since (the original) Israel, and the only nation founded on philosophy. I only hope some of the splintered pieces that result from her breakup over the next decades preserve some of the Founders’ intents. Because it looks like we are hauling toward totalitarianism at breakneck speed.

[lentulusgracchus]

I couldn’t read it all. Like the 1795 “Sneer of Sidney Smith”, a Londoner who spent a few hours putting down America and all her shortcomings. I can’t look at it, history’s rebuke of Smith is beyond epic, it’s fantastic. He wrote the most ill-fated, most unfortunate words in the history of the English tongue.

[aquila48]

“As Margaret Thatcher, the British prime minister, put it: “Europe was created by history. America was created by philosophy.””

America isn’t the only country that was created by philosophy...the USSR was also, and those two philosophies are waging a war right now in the USA.

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

This entire piece should be read and passed on to others.

I emphatically agree. Will Bookmark.

As Margaret Thatcher, the British prime minister, put it: “Europe was created by history. America was created by philosophy.”

Can’t argue with that.

[AFreeBird]

Bump.