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Originally Posted by TracyCoxx
Postman, I agree things are bad now. But then when things seem bad I try and get some perspective and remember how bad things were during the 60s. Civil rights movements, Kent State, the Cuban Missile crisis when the world was just minutes away from an all out nuclear war, JFK shot, MLK shot, Veitnam, etc.
Before that there was the Great Depression, and before that was the Civil War when we were literally killing each other. Before that, there was slavery, and taking N. America from the Indians.
I'm trying to quantify what is it that made America great, and ask is that really being threatened now?
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I agree with the above, but lest we forget, there were people there who were willing to fight for their causes. We have been so conditioned to having tha' Gubmint in our everyday lives and to believe that fighting back is wrong, that nobody is going to lift a damn finger when shit gets tough.
The most important thing; our spirit of independence and self-reliance is what is being threatened now. That is what made America so beautiful.
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