[Gerson points out that it’s easy to be popular in Europe when you go there and criticize America.]
That is a good point and is what sickens me more than anything. Obama goes over to Europe and cuts America down to cheering crowds. 60% of Americans do not even have the sense to get angry about it. Probably 40% agrees with him that America is nothing special. It is like we have beaten wife syndrome.
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I Am A Tired American
April 5, 2009 |
-By Warner Todd Huston
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I am tired of many things going on today, things that seem designed to undermine and destroy our great country. Certainly, we all have the right to express our opinions and, naturally, every American holding any particular ideology will see things that do not correspond to his idea of the “real America” at any given time. It is right and good that we, as citizens, should seek to make the changes we think necessary to make our country strong. We can all agree that people of intelligence and integrity might agree to disagree, but there are some things about a country that, when abandoned or abruptly changed, creates a place markedly different than what it was previously.
These sorts of seminal changes in the fabric of a nation should only be undertaken when that fabric is rotten even to its core. There have been bad spots of America that had to be surgically removed, we all know. But the core of this nation, despite its blemishes, is not now and never has been rotten.
And so I am tired of the many people who are native to this country that want to destroy what it is to make it into what it isn’t, never was, and cannot be. If we wish this country to be as great into the future as it has been in the past this self-destructive behavior must be stopped.
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