Saturday, June 19, 2021

Pick of the Litter

The DrsC have visited over 100 countries, including every region except sub-Saharan Africa and Central Asia. We still think ours is the best, and we've seen many others. 

The United States isn't perfect, no nation is. That said, it is better than most as the people crossing our southern border clearly believe. So why do some Americans feel the need to bad-mouth this nation? To teach our children that it is evil and basically irredeemable? 

That is crazy talk, and it ought to stop. It won't, of course. Much of the bad-mouthing happens because people who don't much like themselves project their shortcomings and insecurities on our nation. 

Can the U.S. be improved? Of course. Will it be? That is much less clear. Certainly not if those who seek equal outcomes for the provident and the feckless - the productive and the destructive - have their way.

Down that road, as the former Soviets discovered, lies a nation in which almost nobody bothers to be productive or provident. Needless to say, the resulting experience wasn't wonderful.