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Quote of the Day: How America Differs From Other Countries
My wife recently read Proof of Life: Twenty Days on the Hunt for a Missing Person in the Middle East, by Daniel Levin. Here’s a quote from a man known as the Sheikh:
You see, my friend, most societies and countries are like ours here [in Lebanon]. They are dysfunctional because they are tribal at their core. But America is different. The reason America is exceptional has nothing to do with its power. No, my friend, the reason for America’s exceptionalism is that it is not tribal. It is a melting pot of many cultures, many ethnicities and religions. And if this American experiment succeeds, then all of us who thrive in tribal conflict in this part of the world, all of us who cannot get out of our way, all of us who cannot evolve, then all of us are lost. That is why I am rooting for America to fail. And that, my friend, is hatred.
The Left hates the concept of the melting pot. The West is despised since it’s largely the culture of America. All cultures are equal except for ours which is to be destroyed. My local bookstore has a number of books which specifically attack whites and the West. Here’s just one example.
In other words, lawyers? :-)
Perhaps, but largely asocial crazies.
Note: I have changed the sourcing in my original comment, and have added content.
Representative Jim Jordan, Ted Cruz, Ron Johson, Mike Lee, Scott Walker, Terry Branstad, Gregg Abbot, Brian Kemp, Marjorie Taylor Greene, Josh Hawley, Ben Sasse, Daryl Issa, Mike Pompeo, Nikki Haley, Candace Owens, All the Conservatives on the Supreme Court, etc….. Those are just ones I can think of and are relatively in the public eye. I don’t think the situation is as bleak as you think.
Fascinating!
Well, I don’t think everyone on your list is a good guy or gal, either. But none of them has the ability to defeat Joe Biden’s double.
And scary, when you think about it. Trolls either are, or are pretty close to, psychopaths. It sort of puts an all new face on taking people in “good-faith” doesn’t it?