The U.S. is no better then these totalitarian countries... I guess he's still trying to make some friends.
And what makes us better than these totalitarian countries?
A few years ago, I would have said a love of liberty, freedom, good values. But seriously, can we honestly claim that anymore?
How many people here are more than happy to trade their freedoms for security? How many don't even care when the speech of others is being silenced? They ignorantly think they wont be silenced as well.
How many people have good and moral values? How many people on this board are humble? How about the nation? How about honesty? How many people are willing to look at reality instead of wearing their partisan blinders?
Our schools have been indoctrinating people with socialist propaganda for well over a generation already. Our media even longer. How many people truly understand the scientific method? Or what science is supposed to prove and what it doesnt even come close to proving? How many people know our history?
How many people profess a faith they know nothing about? How many profess values they don't even try to live?
Whatever good our society has, it's not because we are somehow superior to the people in these totalitarian regimes. Our greatness was created because of our fathers dreams. It's through their labor that we have been successful. It's through their labor we have any semblance of freedom.
And those totalitarians? It's because of their fathers that they aren't free. They are simply showing us what will happen to our children and grandchildren if we dont make the tough choices now.
We need to start looking at and for the truth. The truth is things as they are, as they were, and as they will be. This is impossible without being humble because we need to lay aside our pride to see clearly.
We aren't better than them. We just were lucky that those who came before us gave us such rich blessings they worked hard for. And unless we are willing to do the same, everything they worked for will be lost.