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Tag: America's Future

A Resolute New Year

By Rougman, Section News
Posted on Thu Dec 31, 2009 at 09:37:59 AM EST
Tags: America's Future, 2010 Elections (all tags)

cross posted at a determined Rougblog

By nearly any qualitative or quantitative measurement, this has been a disastrous year for both Michigan and the USA. Even hardened and crotchety progressives look to the hope and promise of a prosperous future because their todays are little more liked than those owned by conservatives.

The America of today is not the America that Samuel Adams, Thomas Jefferson, and John Jay envisioned at this nation's birth. Thankfully, it is also not the America envisioned by Jennifer Granholm, Barack Obama, Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi, Carl Levin and Debbie Stabenow.

We sit somewhere within an intersection of the two visions. One, a vision of individual liberty painted by some of the greatest thinkers in the history of human kind, and a second vision that yearns for a collectivist society where all of humanity works for the betterment of all humanity--individuals be damned.

Steadily, and with few interruptions over the past several decades, our America has drifted from the former vision toward that of the latter. This change has not come without severe repercussions, and it is these repercussions that have laid all of America low.

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