It's time for nation building, not in some distant sand-blown land, but on the home front. At least, so says Thomas Friedman in this week's NY Times.
As July 4th approaches, there was some "fairly unbalanced" perspective from Peter Beinart in Time, on the State of US Patriotism. This piece is a little tepid, if you ask me. Beinart has bent over backwards to accomodate the righteous right. If you consider the State of our Union, as Friedman describes it (use the link above if you have not done so already), it seems laughable not to hold to account those who got us into our present political and economic gloom. Friedman says to make your vote count this November - nothing else matters!
And my response to Beinart is to rephrase Lynnard Skynnard's lyrics. After all, if "Watergate does not bother you, should your conscience bother me"?
Happy July 4th ! Y'all !
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