re: #377 allegro

I’ll miss feeling pride in being an American more.

No shit. Once upon a time I thought what made America great was not the wars we’d won, or how wealthy we were, or how many Olympic medals we won. It was that we always believed we could do better, in the things that matter - more freedom for more people, more opportunity. We’ve done terrible things in the past but we always strive to d better and so our best days are always ahead.

Yeah, well. That was a nice thought, wasn’t it? The crowd that’s now running things firmly believes that our best days were back when we did some of the worst things, and that the fact that we stopped doing those things is why we became, somehow, less great.