Jim Murray

2 years ago ·

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See this flag? For the past couple hundred
years and more, it stood for a country that
worked hard at being the world's best
example of a free market economy and a
democratic republic.

And for most of that time it succeeded.
It led the world in a lot of categones. And
took in immigrants from everywhere and
gave them the opportunity to make some-
thing of their lives

Over the years, its history has been one
of wild successes and tragic failures, most
of which were the price of progress

But generally speaking the country this
flag represents grew and many of its people
prospered

Over the past relatively few years, the
country went through an aborrant period,
where one man put himself above all
others, and, in so doing shook the country
to its foundations

But, if nothing else, America is pretty
good at righting its ship of state and now is
back under good management once again,
hopefully with lessons learned

There will be some fallout from the last
few years, but it's nothing the country can't
handle. As long at they focus on figuring out
‘ways to ensure it doesn't happen again. they
will be fine

Muar
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Zacharias 🐝 Voulgaris

2 years ago #1

It's good to see that there are optimists among us still. Cheers

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