America, Love it or Shut the Fuck Up!
I have recently begun to wonder at not just the lack of enthusiasm for the current adminstration (i am not their biggest fan either) but the lack of faith in America. I am honestly appalled that words like meritocracy and democracy, freedom, and especially The American Dream only seem to appear in sarcastic quotation marks and with a sneer audible over the internet.
Whatever happened to the overweening optimism, the good natured yet unbreakable work ethic of america? I look around and all i seem to see are people with a sense of entitlement looking for a hand out or people with a victim mentality and yet somehow with a sense of superiority trumpting America's flaws out for the world to hear. They scream they have been cheated, the cry that they have been denied, and they whimper that they are the victims. They want you to believe the dream is dead.
They Lie.
While for them, the dream is dead, for us it is not. They have no hope, no part in the great future that awaits all americans who are just willing to reach out and take it, the inheritance that generations have sacrificed to build. We who believe in the greatness of america (the greatness not of history, though it is one to be proud of, but of potential) are the heirs to that. Because that inheritance comes with a price tag, a caveat, a demand. Work. Effort. If there are any words more anathema to these pseudo-americans than patriotism and loyalty, it is work and effort.
This land stands as it has always stood. A land of oppurtunity where any man with nothing may rise, limited by only two things, his imagination and his work ethic. All other limitations that some see, limitations of race, creed, religion, class, these limitations only exist if you let them.
America may not be perfect, and as a creation of flawed men, it is unlikely to ever be. It could however be better. And it is up to the Americans willing to work to make it happen. The rest will be left by the wayside.
The American Dream is waiting. If only you are willing to get off your high horse and meet it.
Whatever happened to the overweening optimism, the good natured yet unbreakable work ethic of america? I look around and all i seem to see are people with a sense of entitlement looking for a hand out or people with a victim mentality and yet somehow with a sense of superiority trumpting America's flaws out for the world to hear. They scream they have been cheated, the cry that they have been denied, and they whimper that they are the victims. They want you to believe the dream is dead.
They Lie.
While for them, the dream is dead, for us it is not. They have no hope, no part in the great future that awaits all americans who are just willing to reach out and take it, the inheritance that generations have sacrificed to build. We who believe in the greatness of america (the greatness not of history, though it is one to be proud of, but of potential) are the heirs to that. Because that inheritance comes with a price tag, a caveat, a demand. Work. Effort. If there are any words more anathema to these pseudo-americans than patriotism and loyalty, it is work and effort.
This land stands as it has always stood. A land of oppurtunity where any man with nothing may rise, limited by only two things, his imagination and his work ethic. All other limitations that some see, limitations of race, creed, religion, class, these limitations only exist if you let them.
America may not be perfect, and as a creation of flawed men, it is unlikely to ever be. It could however be better. And it is up to the Americans willing to work to make it happen. The rest will be left by the wayside.
The American Dream is waiting. If only you are willing to get off your high horse and meet it.