Gregg's arguments here and elsewhere are correct. Nonetheless, many American institutions are broken and in dire need of deep change or replacement. They're overseen by ideologues and gerontocrats insulated from the consequences of their bad ideas.
"As long as I’m around, America has no need to be made great again. Because, you know, It doesn’t get much greater than this…" A good thought on Thanksgiving eve.
Sometimes it's hard to keep that thought in mind, when reading the news, which seems full of nothing but the worst side of American life: rampant drug use, more mass shootings as the body count seems to go upupup every day, nurses and doctors quitting medicine because of burn-out by overcrowded ERs and epidemics and angry patients insisting on getting treated with quack cures, schools that can't seem to educate kids and kids who don't have any interest in learning, etc. etc. etc.). The avalanche of bad news that never seems to end can be overwhelming. It's good to take a moment to breathe.
We've got a good thing going here in this America of ours -- not a perfect thing, but serviceable, fixable, improvable -- and if good people continue to give it their best efforts, it may continue to be a pretty good place to live and work and grow up and grow old in for a long time to come.
Gregg's arguments here and elsewhere are correct. Nonetheless, many American institutions are broken and in dire need of deep change or replacement. They're overseen by ideologues and gerontocrats insulated from the consequences of their bad ideas.
Classic takes:
https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/everything-is-broken
https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/brokenism-alana-newhouse
"As long as I’m around, America has no need to be made great again. Because, you know, It doesn’t get much greater than this…" A good thought on Thanksgiving eve.
Sometimes it's hard to keep that thought in mind, when reading the news, which seems full of nothing but the worst side of American life: rampant drug use, more mass shootings as the body count seems to go upupup every day, nurses and doctors quitting medicine because of burn-out by overcrowded ERs and epidemics and angry patients insisting on getting treated with quack cures, schools that can't seem to educate kids and kids who don't have any interest in learning, etc. etc. etc.). The avalanche of bad news that never seems to end can be overwhelming. It's good to take a moment to breathe.
We've got a good thing going here in this America of ours -- not a perfect thing, but serviceable, fixable, improvable -- and if good people continue to give it their best efforts, it may continue to be a pretty good place to live and work and grow up and grow old in for a long time to come.