Reply #13: I believe that a re-evaluation of the nation

[nels25]

every so often is good for it's soul and ultimately can lead to the nations betterment.

When I state that I believe in the better nature of this nation in does not also mean that I endorse nationalism run amok. Unbridled nationalism creates wars (See US Civil, and both of last century's world wars) so that is an unsound basis on which to sustain a nation.

I also do not believe that enjoying a lifestyle that the nation currently enjoys is by necessity any thing to be ashamed of. Many have played by the rules and prospered and to remove the fruits of their labor or to shame them, to me seems patently unfair and to a limited degree patronizing.

OTOH there are many who have prospered and live an ostentatious lifestyle to which they did not earn by their own labor. They gained it by either fortune of birth, manipulation of a business/market for their betterment not caring about the costs/harm done to other blameless people.
Or they gained their wealth by sheer illegality.

These people deserve to be dealt with sharply. For those who gained their wealth by birth, I might remind them that "to who much is given, much is required". This more than anything else is what Republicans of high status seem not to understand, and then they are amazed that they are held in high disrepute by a high percentage of the nation.

I hope you are wrong about terror, it will most likely do more harm then good in the short run, no matter who is elected.

I want results, and for us to emulate a noted republican president by the name of Lincoln who as noted by another poster to my essay wanted to get past anger/rage/rancor.

It is the best way to go.:thumbsup: