5) America, for all its flaws, is the least bad great power option...
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I'm fully on board with that one
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Agreed, but I understand no. 1 as well. The progression is too slow for too many.
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To some extent I agree with both 1 and 2, even though they're contradictory. That contradiction's at the heart of America, and basically what I meant by 4.
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4 is always the answer with anything. Nothing is ever perfect. The drive for perfection rather than its actual attachment is the journey. We have goals for 0 recordable safety incidents at work. Not possible, but we never stop trying. Brady has lost super bowls, is he not great?
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Brady sucks. (Kidding. I acknowledge he is good at the footballing. But he still sucks. Let's go Buf-a-lo-o!)
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4. America is an experiment, one that remains more aspirational than operational, but all the alternatives to redoubling our striving for those aspirations are far, far worse.
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A corollary to 4 is the idea that 1 is a correct answer for significant portions of our population, and that eliminates 2 and 3 as legitimate.
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Exactly. One reason 3 is the least defensible is because romanticism about the 1950s as better than the 21st century requires ignoring large swaths of the population.
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4. But she’s on a slippery, dangerous, slope of pettiness, nationalism, & and anti- POC/immigrant-ism
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That's one of the occasional setbacks.
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That it is.
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#4, with the understanding that there is no country without problems. We are a noble nation with high ideals. We've been improving throughout history, until we hit a bump in 2016.
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We've hit other bumps too. But overall, yeah.
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Ah yes, good point! But each time we have come out with expanded rights. This is the first time in history we're looking at revoking civil rights, potentially.
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How seriously should we take a campaign slogan? Remember Hope and Change?
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Considering the continuation of this one into the presidency -- via repetition, merchandising, and an identity formed around the acronym -- I'd say more seriously than most.
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True. But anyone or anything short of perfection apparently cannot be great. All presidents have been flawed. All countries. Does it serve a purpose other than political to a crowd and tell the citizens of arguably the best country in history that it has never been great?
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