We can let mistakes and stupidity define America, but we also have the choice to look at the good the country has managed and try to realize the dream of our forefathers. In my lifetime the UN was born here, the Marshall Plan realized, and some art and science (think Salk vaccine for polio, think artists who escaped Hitler’s Europe, and …
We can let mistakes and stupidity define America, but we also have the choice to look at the good the country has managed and try to realize the dream of our forefathers. In my lifetime the UN was born here, the Marshall Plan realized, and some art and science (think Salk vaccine for polio, think artists who escaped Hitler’s Europe, and general charity that our wealth has allowed for) created. I would add the last line of one of my favorite movies: “Nobody’s perfect.” (Joe E Brown to Tony Curtis, with Marilyn Monroe in “Some Like It Hot.”)
Thank you, Virginia. As a young child, we had families in our neighborhood who came here, fleeing the holocaust, having lost many relatives. I am friendly with people who came here from Lithuania after the Soviet Union collapsed and left them with no viable economy, but they have prospered here, as have large numbers of Vietnamese. We can focus on slavery, and the subsequent marginalization of Black people, the fact that boatloads of Jews were sent back to Europe and certain death rather than offering them refuge, our adding to the dark history of Vietnam, and many other examples of wrongs committed here, but there are citizens and politicians who are pledging to do better, and I still believe it is possible.
I am a huge, huge, huge fan of John Adams and his MA Constitution and the tremendous amount of research he did to write that as the template for our US Constitution.
America is truly made better due to John Adams presence here.
We can let mistakes and stupidity define America, but we also have the choice to look at the good the country has managed and try to realize the dream of our forefathers. In my lifetime the UN was born here, the Marshall Plan realized, and some art and science (think Salk vaccine for polio, think artists who escaped Hitler’s Europe, and general charity that our wealth has allowed for) created. I would add the last line of one of my favorite movies: “Nobody’s perfect.” (Joe E Brown to Tony Curtis, with Marilyn Monroe in “Some Like It Hot.”)
Thank you, Virginia. As a young child, we had families in our neighborhood who came here, fleeing the holocaust, having lost many relatives. I am friendly with people who came here from Lithuania after the Soviet Union collapsed and left them with no viable economy, but they have prospered here, as have large numbers of Vietnamese. We can focus on slavery, and the subsequent marginalization of Black people, the fact that boatloads of Jews were sent back to Europe and certain death rather than offering them refuge, our adding to the dark history of Vietnam, and many other examples of wrongs committed here, but there are citizens and politicians who are pledging to do better, and I still believe it is possible.
Virginia,
I am a huge, huge, huge fan of John Adams and his MA Constitution and the tremendous amount of research he did to write that as the template for our US Constitution.
America is truly made better due to John Adams presence here.