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summer_in_TX

(3,365 posts)

2. Loved the Newsroom and I remember that scene well.

Reply to lees1975 (Original post)

Sat Jan 4, 2025, 12:11 AM

Jan 4

We are not exceptional, of course. Our nation and our people have done many bad things over the 248 years of our existence. We are not worse than others, but we aren't better either.

BUT at the heart of our nation are the soaring ideals that pull us back to doing and being better. We are a nation built around those ideals in a way no other nation has been. I consider them living words because they have worked in the hearts and minds of people to cause them to struggle together to achieve the right to vote and to be included in our dream.

That's worth the struggle.