built with pride....
caveats... 1)this post (I have recently learned I have to do this here) has no purpose, intent, relevance, agenda, or hidden meaning. Just sharing of some binary code. 2)I like my truck. So...
Forum Discussion
spoon059 wrote:
Rape happens in America. Murder. Child abuse. Drug crimes. Corruption. Does that make it American? .
Superficial thinking there; those are crimes and not political or economic theories or actions with a voting constituency (except for corruption, a practice that is very American). But government bailouts obviously do have a constituency of law abiding, respectable Americans. And as America changes what it means for something to be American changes, generally becoming broader and more inclusive. Indeed, two contradictory notions can both be American. You follow?
Often those who have it made under present conditions resist a change in conditions, lest change work against them. Such people, in order to further their own interests attempt to equate THEIR own interests with "Americanism" and tar competing interests as unAmerican; an appeal to emotion and ignorance. The early 20th Century KKK comes to mind, as does early and mid 20th Century Red baiting.
