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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]They know how much I love America.  I am super jingoistic with a big flag up and I sing all the patriotic songs and love Fourth of July and am a total American history buff.  J love all the things that make America great — freedom of speech, the separation of church and state,  public education, the national park system, civil rights, the melting pot of immigrants who have come here, labor unions, voting riots, due process, the incredible history of scientific discovery and our federal government support for that.  Yay America!  We talk about all that regularly and they are very clear on all the wonderful things about America, and the fact that some people ate trying to undermine all that.  
This land is your land, this land is my land…this land was made for you and me! [/quote]

My daughter is 19 years old, and was 8 when Trump was first elected.  Her entire experience with politics, and the united States in general, has not been terribly positive.  I feel somewhat the same way you do, but I have a very difficult time convincing her that the US is a force for good in the world.  She understands, intellectually, that it has been in the past, but now?  And realistically, if my worldview was shaped by 2015-2026, would you believe that it is?  And because of this, she has a much easier time identifying and point out the flaws in the US's past, that were either ignored or downplayed when I was in school.  And you know what?  She's right.  Unthinkingly repeating "Yay America!" is simple-minded, and counterproductive.

In short, I think the era of people feeling like the PP is, if not over, coming to an end.  [/quote]

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