Why You Love America

[The_Rorschach]

I don't know. . .I never did the fireworks and barbeques on the Fourth of July, my Father and I never argued over the race issue, nor can I begin to concieve the brand of logic which would equate anything which the US has done with the acts perpetrated under 'Uncle Joe' Stalin. Maybe that is why this piece did nothing for me. It struck me as a weak attempt to find a middle ground between American nationalists and American socialists, a wasted attempt at that.

The argument that violence within our culture is causing its deterioration is ludicrous. There has always been violence, from the frontier period when settlers travelled under armed escorts and relied upon the Union soldiers to curb Amer-Indian aggression to post-WW ][ Hollywood productions. However successfully that strawman has been established, it is no more legitimate now than it was twenty years ago when I first heard of it.

Equally, statements like: "Voices of protest from around the world will grow louder as this hemorrhaging worsens. . ." are only so much hyperbole. The protesting reached a crescendo and has since been reduced to a disconcordant muttering. In the near future it will be strangled off and forgotten -If the Iran/Contra crimes could be forgotten in a mere decade, how much longer will this last?