This is America, freedom and liberty left here about 100 years ago.
That's pure defeatist B.S., Ca Patriot, and you know it.
As an American Patriot who spent twenty years of my life
fighting for our freedoms and our liberties both here and abroad, getting shot at and loosing good friends and compatriots in the process, I find your remark insulting to their sacrifices.
Freedom and Liberty remain, but we have to fight for it, every day. That's never changed. It was true more than ten thousand years ago when the first Americans had to eek out an existence in a new and foreign land, often against rival tribes. It was true thousands of years later, when settlers arrived from other continents within the last 500 years. I was true when our Founding Fathers agreed it was time to throw off an oppressive government, one for whom injustice had become routine, one hundred years later when our nation was torn asunder by significant cultural and ideological differences, and decades later when oppressive governments attacked us while subjugating our allies, killing millions in the process, not once, but twice.
It remains true today, and will always be true, for the tide of injustice and human suffering at the hands of other humans will always be with us, so long as there remains greed and avarice among us, whenever the love of money eclipses virtues necessary for our common good.
Defeatism is not one of those virtues.
A
patriot doesn't disparage his duty. He welcomes it, accepting the responsibility gladly, knowing that by determination and effort, he can make a difference, sometimes in his own lifetime, but surely in the lives of those to follow.
I accept my duty as an American Patriot. I took my oath of office seriously when I first took it back in the late '80s, and I take it seriously now. Our nation is threatened, yes. Our enemies, both foreign and domestic have made advances into our society and threaten to undermine our Freedom and our Liberty, but they haven't won, not yet. As one who has visited more than thirty countries, and seen first-hand the depravity and oppression in many, I can assure you although we're not perfect, we're better than most.
Our Founding Fathers had a dream, a vision of something wonderful, and it was well worth fighting for.
It still is.