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| One more thing: I am a loose political centrist. It might seem that I am very critical of Republicans while being gentle towards the Democrats. It is true that I think that the modern Republican party is devastatingly bad. However, I am not a Democrat. Indeed, I have traditionally been quite critical of the illiberal progressivism of the so-called woke left. This was one of the major reasons that I supported Trump wholeheartedly in 2016 (the other being that I was young and foolish). I now see the truth: The threat of illiberal conservatism entirely eclipses the threat of illiberal progressivism. I won't make that case in this article, however. | One more thing: I am a loose political centrist. It might seem that I am very critical of Republicans while being gentle towards the Democrats. It is true that I think that the modern Republican party is devastatingly bad. However, I am not a Democrat. Indeed, I have traditionally been quite critical of the illiberal progressivism of the so-called woke left. This was one of the major reasons that I supported Trump wholeheartedly in 2016 (the other being that I was young and foolish). I now see the truth: The threat of illiberal conservatism entirely eclipses the threat of illiberal progressivism. I won't make that case in this article, however. | ||
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| - | My allegiance is to America and the values that made this country, as Reagan described it, "a shining city on a hill" | ||
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| So what went wrong, that we developed this collective suicidal urge to dismantle our country? The problem isn't with the government, or some policy that was enacted, or some secret organization that's pulling the strings. The problem is //us//. We failed to keep the idea of Americanism alive. We became a country of people whose only relationship to it was that we lived here. We began to view our fellow countrymen less as brothers and more as obstacles on the way to wealth. We think as //our// rights as something we deserve, but of //their// rights as something that should be taken away if they make us uncomfortable. | So what went wrong, that we developed this collective suicidal urge to dismantle our country? The problem isn't with the government, or some policy that was enacted, or some secret organization that's pulling the strings. The problem is //us//. We failed to keep the idea of Americanism alive. We became a country of people whose only relationship to it was that we lived here. We began to view our fellow countrymen less as brothers and more as obstacles on the way to wealth. We think as //our// rights as something we deserve, but of //their// rights as something that should be taken away if they make us uncomfortable. | ||
| - | "If a black man is gunned down without cause in the street by police, who cares? I'm not black. Doesn' | + | "If a black man is gunned down without cause in the street by police, who cares? I'm not black. Doesn' |
| - | We have become a country of cynics, both in philosophy and action. We believe that man is completely | + | We have become a country of cynics, both in philosophy and action. We believe that man is rotten, and thus we act rotten. We don't hesitate to kick our fellow man in the shins if we can slightly improve our standing -- after all, we reason, he would have done the same to us. This cynical philosophy becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy. If you kick my shins, then I'm going to kick your shins, and we'll all be kicking each other' |
| Some people think that all of this is due to a decline of religion. While it is true that some religious people are very kind, altruistic, and civic-minded people, my anecdotal observations have revealed that religious people can personify the worst of this attitude. See, for instance, the rise of self-styled " | Some people think that all of this is due to a decline of religion. While it is true that some religious people are very kind, altruistic, and civic-minded people, my anecdotal observations have revealed that religious people can personify the worst of this attitude. See, for instance, the rise of self-styled " | ||
| My point is that you should be motivated to save this country. Yes, you should do this politically -- you should get out and vote, you should protest, heck, if it comes down to it, you might even need to fight for it. But you should also try to save the country non-politically, | My point is that you should be motivated to save this country. Yes, you should do this politically -- you should get out and vote, you should protest, heck, if it comes down to it, you might even need to fight for it. But you should also try to save the country non-politically, | ||
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