America Used To Be Really Goddamn Awesome
Posted September 28, 2007 | 04:57 PM (EST) Bob Cesca, The Huffington Post
I've been captivated by Ken Burns' The War this week and it struck me how awesome America used to be.
The prevailing attitude of the ladies and gentlemen featured in Burns' film, and by proxy all Americans of that era, was that if we had to fight a war, we had better do it right. Clearly and with little dissent, we had to fight that war, and without fail, Americans rallied together to do it really damn well.
People from every corner of the nation selflessly pooled their resources for the great cause of World War II, and I'm not sure about this one, but I don't think President Roosevelt ever once asked the country to sacrifice by going to the mall. And I'm pretty sure he didn't outsource the construction of tanks, Flying Fortresses, Hellcats and Thunderbolts to Mexico and China. That's a hell of a thing by today's standards, isn't it? More here
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America was NEVER great. A great country does not kill the indigenous culture that populates its land and steals that land. Spin it however you want, that is what happened, and our "forefathers" were blood-covered.
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