The 10 Big Lies About America

FRONTPAGE MAGAZINE.com ^ | Wednesday, January 21, 2009 | By David Forsmark

[Cindy]

The 10 Big Lies About America: Combating Destructive Distortions about Our Nation By Michael Medved Crown Forum, $26.95, 280 pp.

If your holiday get-togethers included a college student home for "Winter Break" fretting about professors preaching that America is land of inequality, founded on genocide and slavery for the benefit of corporations and imperial militarists -- and that all this Christmas stuff violates the secular founding of our diverse nation — I have an essential ingredient to include in a second semester care package.

Michael Medved's The 10 Big Lies about America: Combating Destructive Distortions about Our Nation is a beautifully reasoned, well-argued defense of America that would be a welcomed lifeline for any beleaguered college or high school student fed up of feeling defensive about loving his country.

As Medved states in the introduction, his primary purpose is to give Americans the knowledge needed to celebrate their great nation without guilt or apology.

[allmost]

You’re rep is golden so bump Cindy. I’m still WTF?

[x_plus_one]

But while it may not be un-American to complain that "the two-party system is broken, blah blah blah," it is generally made by people who are appealing to cheap cynicism or trying too hard to look hip and intelligent.

Good point.

[flowerplough]

And here’s one big truth about America, often attributed to Alexander Tytler:

A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largess from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most benefits from the public treasury with the result that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy, always followed by a dictatorship. The average age of the world’s greatest civilizations has been 200 years.

Great nations rise and fall. The people go from bondage to spiritual truth, to great courage, from courage to liberty, from liberty to abundance, from abundance to selfishness, from selfishness to complacency, from complacency to apathy, from apathy to dependence, from dependence back again to bondage.

[9YearLurker]

Sounds great!

[ansel12]

“However, Medved argues that we have certainly come a long way since the late 1800s, when up to 1 out of 6 women in New York City was a prostitute.”

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Wow!