Here’s the Friday open comments post.
Today’s suggested topic — what do you like best about America?
If I were to pick what’s best about America from among serious, I’d say individual liberty (no surprise, surely). America eschews the aggregate, the collective, the mass, in favor of rights for individuals, separate, unique, each as worthy as another. Americans band together freely for all sorts of purposes, but when they do, one hopes that they do so as a pack, not a herd.
If picking from among the light, I’d say baseball, vast & open roads, natural beauty and bounty, a simple cuisine, jazz, and an appreciation of cats (Lincoln, Twain, among others). My list is hardly exhaustive, but just a few items from among a much greater number.
The use of pseudonyms and anonymous postings is, of course, fine.
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I’ll keep the post open through Sunday afternoon.
Have at it.
Small towns have no traffic no congestion no crime. Many cities in other countries are jammed to the gills. There’s room here to live without becoming a sardine. that’s what I like about America
What do I like the best? What an optimistic believer friend of mine ( a strange visitor from another planet) calls “Truth, Justice, and the American Way.” At times we seem a dysfunctional Nation, but for the most part, I believe our hearts are in the right place.
Football!!! The REAL kind with helmets.
Hollywood rules the world. American films are best in the world. No one else could make Titanic or Avatar.
America is still the land of opportunity.
Freedom and respect for women is also much better here than in most other nations.
We can speak freely, read freely, write freely.
Carry on, John.