Real Liberals are almost like unicorns these days. ...
Agreed, and the same goes for real Conservatives. Very few are like Barry "Mr. Conservative" Goldwater. Fewer still follow the ideals expressed by John Wayne in his 1973 "
America, Why I Love Her" album. This is the America I strive for. IMHO, it's the America most Americans want to have.
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The Pledge of Allegiance Lyrics - John Wayne
"Whose bright stars are fifty states...each bearing its own stamp of individuality. People...two hundred million strong...people who have come to her from all corners of the earth....A land of laws...with an ingenious system of checks and balances that allows no man to become a tyrant...and lets no group prevail...if their power is not tempered with a real concern for the governed...A land where the right of dissent and of free speech is jealously guarded...where the ballot box is the sword...and the people its wielder....A land where freedom of worship is a cornerstone of her being...A land graced with temples and churches, synagogues and altars that rise in profusion to embrace all the religions of the world....A land forged by the hot steel of raw courage...and formed forever...by the awful crucible of civil war....Where man in pursuit of an honest life will not be denied his chance...where her citizens move freely within her vast borders without hindrance or fear...A land brimming with opportunity...where freedom of choice is the guide for all.....The courts of our land are open to all. Its wheels of justice grind for all causes...all people. They look to every avenue for justice...every concern of the law...and they temper their reasoning with mercy..."