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Cunningham's Law in a thread with Ron Howard...coincidence?

Yes, please! Even if our view of ourselves is revisionist history, we can aspire to be what we feel we were, or always should be. It seems to me that it's clear what America should be, but I don't feel that we are.

"We stood up for what was right. We fought for moral reason. We passed laws, struck down laws, for moral reason. We waged wars on poverty, not on poor people. We sacrificed, we cared about our neighbors, we put our money where our mouths were and we never beat our chest. We built great, big things, made ungodly technological advances, explored the universe, cured diseases and we cultivated the world’s greatest artists AND the world’s greatest economy. We reached for the stars, acted like men. We aspired to intelligence, we didn’t belittle it. It didn’t make us feel inferior. We didn’t identify ourselves by who we voted for in the last election and we didn’t scare so easy."

I'm sure that no one will doubt that we've never been good at doing things for "moral reasons", but we all know that we should. Why can't we be the America that that we know that we want to be, or should be?