We are not a nation of pansies.
We are a nation of workers and professionals. Every day of labor is a day of dignity, a day where we shape and contribute to our world.
We are a nation of the just. Living up to the letter of the law, and breaking that law if it is unjust.
We are a nation of communities and the communal. Enriching our shared lives, and always risking reaching out to a new neighbor or the stranger.
We are a nation of progress and change. Refusing to let the dark, suffocating, blood soaked history of humanity define us now or in the future.
I was going to refute your points one by one, but they are ridiculous. I cannot take seriously someone who thinks America is broken because we refuse to be exactly who you want us to be.
America isn't broken for changing or making progress; it is always broken and whole at the same time.
We are broken for having replaced family-time with screen time, but made whole using those screens to share love over long distances.
We are broken for loosing our ancestral beliefs about gender identity, but made whole because a part of the human race is recognized and respected for the first time in our entire history.
We are broken because we live in subdivisions and shop at mini-malls, but made whole by wealth and health unimaginable to our ancestors.
America is whole and broken. Change is dangerous, destructive, redemptive, fulfilling, shocking. Change is inescapable, and anyone trying to ask "who are we essentially?" will find no answer. The body politic, like the body, is injured and healed, injured and healed, but unlike the body, gets stronger and stronger after being broken apart.
We have never been the land of faithfulness, or sacredness, or sameness, or boringness. We are the nation of progress, we are not pansies, we will not stop, and you should be ready.
We are a nation of workers and professionals. Every day of labor is a day of dignity, a day where we shape and contribute to our world.
We are a nation of the just. Living up to the letter of the law, and breaking that law if it is unjust.
We are a nation of communities and the communal. Enriching our shared lives, and always risking reaching out to a new neighbor or the stranger.
We are a nation of progress and change. Refusing to let the dark, suffocating, blood soaked history of humanity define us now or in the future.
I was going to refute your points one by one, but they are ridiculous. I cannot take seriously someone who thinks America is broken because we refuse to be exactly who you want us to be.
America isn't broken for changing or making progress; it is always broken and whole at the same time.
We are broken for having replaced family-time with screen time, but made whole using those screens to share love over long distances.
We are broken for loosing our ancestral beliefs about gender identity, but made whole because a part of the human race is recognized and respected for the first time in our entire history.
We are broken because we live in subdivisions and shop at mini-malls, but made whole by wealth and health unimaginable to our ancestors.
America is whole and broken. Change is dangerous, destructive, redemptive, fulfilling, shocking. Change is inescapable, and anyone trying to ask "who are we essentially?" will find no answer. The body politic, like the body, is injured and healed, injured and healed, but unlike the body, gets stronger and stronger after being broken apart.
We have never been the land of faithfulness, or sacredness, or sameness, or boringness. We are the nation of progress, we are not pansies, we will not stop, and you should be ready.
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