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What a surprise. I am glad I'm 59 and not a child in this nation now.
This country and its leaders are acting like filth to the memories and sacrifices of The Founding Fathers and of others.
It disgusts me. I'd hate to be a child now!
"I am glad I'm 59 and not a child in this nation now.
This country and its leaders are acting like filth to the memories and sacrifices of The Founding Fathers and of others.
It disgusts me. I'd hate to be a child now!"
Agreed. My grandparents had to take and oath when they LEGALLY entered the once great United States of America. It went someting like this:
"I hereby declare, on oath, that I absolutely and entirely renounce and abjure all allegiance and fidelity to any foreign prince, potentate, state or sovereignty, of whom or which I have heretofore been a subject or citizen.”(US Oath of Allegiance)
What if however you were a child now?
I like Mark Krikorian's definition of a post-American.
"Let me be clear what I mean by a post-American. A post-American may actually still like America, but the emotion resembles the attachment one might feel to, say, suburban New Jersey – it can be a pleasant place to live, but you're always open to a better offer. The post-American has a casual relationship with his native country, unlike a patriot. Put differently, the patriot is married to America; the post-American is just shacking up."
Mark Krikorian
"Post-Americans They've Just 'Grown' Beyond Their Country,"
National Review Online, June 22, 2004
www.cis.org/articles/2004/mskoped062204.html
Me too. But, maybe things need to get bad before they get better. We have war in our living memory, even those our age that didn't fight most likely had a father or grandfather, uncle who did have to fight for what we have today.
Maybe they need those same experiences to appreciate what they had, and maybe then they can have them again.
Then a few generations later they will be sitting where we are now cursing their ofspring for throwing it all away.
The cycle of life?
This country and its leaders are acting like filth to the memories and sacrifices of The Founding Fathers and of others.
It disgusts me. I'd hate to be a child now!
Based upon the changes I've seen in the last 50 years; I ditto your last statement. Our children are in their mid-20s, and I have asked them to think hard about whether they want to have children.
That's a main reason I had a vasectomy early in my marriage.
""The elites in Washington, D.C., New York City and the United Nations seem to have plotted a journey to lead America into the New World Order where a cosmopolitan global citizen is no more connected to his country than a sociopath to his fellow man." ---
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What a surprise. I am glad I'm 59 and not a child in this nation now.
This country and its leaders are acting like filth to the memories and sacrifices of The Founding Fathers and of others.
It disgusts me. I'd hate to be a child now!"