This is a country with a vision of the future and a conscience. These are traits that make us strong and vulnerable. We walk a tightrope of freedom.
Liberals are looking for simple philosophies and simple rules. Wish I knew some that actually worked.
Don Goomba,
An old sage named Hop Sing once told me that Liberals "just looking to make trouble."
ED:
Great topic, and one that needs to have priority in our national debates.
If you recall, from Middle School studies, the subject called The Rise of Nationalism, today we have an unclarifed mood that spreads across political parties, which is a rise of cosmopolitanism.
It's the Citizen of The World, Marxism and Family of Man nonsense that sprang from the self-flattering progressivism of my generation , and has blossomed into multiculturalism nationwide and all its local variations. More leftists believe it than conservatives, but everyone now speaks the lingo.
Diversity is good, whatever that means, because sameness in any form is bad. Somehow the 20th century produced the idea that uniformity in some things is the same as the dead weight of conformity in all things. It's essentially a paranoid idea.
It imagines its natural enemies to be jingoism, parochialism and bourgeois society, and attacks the easy, unresisting attributes of uncomplicated patriotism, national identity and common culture because they can't fight back.
American exceptionalism is derived from the mixing and synthesis of cultures from everywhere; and the idea that the qualities of "an American" supersed all other qualities has created a nation greater than the sum of its parts.
This is coming to an end. Momentum and majorities, for now, keep it alive. If it survives another fifty years I will be surprised.
Not ED, DC:
"If so, then we are finished."
I hate to say it, but we're finished.
The American ideal will not soon perish, but the country currently known as America certainly has it's days limited. Some stalwart freedom-lovers will join together (perhaps in the Free State, NH?) to preserve the unique American experiment, but a large portion of the country is already lost.
How else can you explain the election of Clinton, Kennedy, and Feinstein to the US Senate?
Rhod and Ogre ...
Well, you could make the case that it is inevitable. I don't necessarily believe so. And I believe the creating a sense of inevitability in opponents is one of the keys to victory in any battle.
I think we can hold them off, but it will tough sledding. These are exciting times to be alive.
And Ogre, the answer to your question is ... NY, Mass., and Cal. The country is trending away from these places.
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