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Ordinarily, I quote an excerpt from the "Subject Article" that prompts my post. But this particular article is so repulsive to me that rather than risk someone reading my own post and mistaking the quote to be part of my own opinion, which could not be further from the truth, I leave it to the reader's discretion to sample that vile content.
What could persuade an American adult to have such an opinion of America? It goes beyond anything I have encountered, so far, emanating from Holyshitwood, Jimmy Carter, or even Cindy Sheehan. As most anything in our four-dimensional non-linear world, it is undoubtedly attributable to a multiplicity of factors.
The author of the subject article admits to, "doing a lot of heavy narcotics back in ‘03", probably in an effort to establish an insanity defense. But I suspect other factors played a major role in the making of this poster boy for Liberal Fascism run amok.
Plain old ignorance is certainly a prominent suspect, and I fault our poor public school curricula for churning out a populace that is quite capable of carrying out the wishes of the advertising media, but does not have nearly enough appreciation for the spectacularly fortunate circumstances that created this blessed republic and re-created it in the aftermath of the Battle of Gettysburg. If you don't already believe that this sorry world would be a much sorrier world if not for America, please read the following books, only one of which (Wills') exceeds 300 pages (if you include the Notes and Indexes):
Ordinarily, I quote an excerpt from the "Subject Article" that prompts my post. But this particular article is so repulsive to me that rather than risk someone reading my own post and mistaking the quote to be part of my own opinion, which could not be further from the truth, I leave it to the reader's discretion to sample that vile content.What could persuade an American adult to have such an opinion of America? It goes beyond anything I have encountered, so far, emanating from Holyshitwood, Jimmy Carter, or even Cindy Sheehan. As most anything in our four-dimensional non-linear world, it is undoubtedly attributable to a multiplicity of factors.
The author of the subject article admits to, "doing a lot of heavy narcotics back in ‘03", probably in an effort to establish an insanity defense. But I suspect other factors played a major role in the making of this poster boy for Liberal Fascism run amok.
Plain old ignorance is certainly a prominent suspect, and I fault our poor public school curricula for churning out a populace that is quite capable of carrying out the wishes of the advertising media, but does not have nearly enough appreciation for the spectacularly fortunate circumstances that created this blessed republic and re-created it in the aftermath of the Battle of Gettysburg. If you don't already believe that this sorry world would be a much sorrier world if not for America, please read the following books, only one of which (Wills') exceeds 300 pages (if you include the Notes and Indexes):
- Richard Brookhiser, "Founding Father — Rediscovering George Washington", 1996.
- Joseph J. Ellis, "Founding Brothers — The Revolutionary Generation", 2001 [Winner of the Pulitzer Prize].
- Mortimer J. Adler, "We Hold These Truths — Understanding the Ideas and Ideals of the Constitution", 1987.
- Gary Wills, "Lincoln at Gettysburg — The Words That Remade America", 1992 [Winner of the Pulitzer Prize].
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