Posted on 10/19/2016 9:12:55 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Donald Trump’s ‘Make America great again’ slogan and this Republican Congress's actions raise unanswered questions
Recently I appeared at Lehigh University in Bethlehem, Penn., for a talk entitled “Making America As Good As Its Promise.” So you don’t confuse the theme of my talk with the slogan of a particular presidential campaign, let me delineate the difference.
When I hear Donald Trump suggest that he wants to “make America great again,” it always triggers the same three questions in my head.
One: How is Trump defining “greatness”? I’m not sure he and I share an understanding of what makes a nation truly great. For me, it starts with how you treat the children, the poor, the aged and infirmed, how you embrace equality as you labor for equity. Equality means that everyone gets the same in America, whether they need it or not. Equity says we commit to ensuring that all fellow citizens have the basic resources that will give them commensurate opportunities to contribute meaningfully to our society....
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Equality is not socialism. Equality means you have the opportunity to achieve but achievement is not a guaranteed outcome of your efforts, because there’s always Murphy’s Law.
The Dems have already done it with LBJ’s “Great Society” that has bought their votes and destroyed their families.
Tavis is a slave on the Democrat Plantation.
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