Once Upon a Time in America

Pajamas Media ^ | June 18 | Stephen Green

[AJKauf]

When the s*** hits the fan, for more than two centuries the best people in the world have been able to count on one thing: escaping to America.

Even before there was a United States, the land we call America was a different place. In America, a peasant could own land. A slave could fight — literally — for his freedom. An Irish cop could arrest an English criminal.

In America, a Russian could speak his mind, an Italian could renounce the Pope, a Serbian could marry a Turk, an Asian or an Indian could find space to move, a Catholic could get divorced, a Jew could eat bacon, and a housewife could get a job. A … well, pretty much anyone could do most anything. Maybe not at first, and certainly not without ridicule if you chose do something really silly — but the choice was yours.

In America, you were free.

Here was a New World. No kings, no knights, no dukes, no earls. No titles, no shackles, no pales of settlement. Some of us, shamefully, owned slaves. But when push came to shove, Americans were willing to kill and die to make other men free. It was true in the Civil War. It was true in World War Two. It remains true today in Iraq and Afghanistan....

[handy old one]

Once upon a time there was a great country that left to itself became a cesspool of the world. There may still be time to stop this from happening with a lot of work and prayer.

[unkus]

Once upon a time there was a great and beautiful country. Most of the inhabitants took it for granted and neglected the upkeep.Rats and termites took over and it collapsed from within.

[ballplayer]

I never realized it would be this simple to destroy America,its a wonder it hasnt happened sooner