I want to thank all of you for that many replies that fast. I cannot reply to all of them, so I'll PM each of you so that you don't miss this post.
I share in a lot of the concerns, but as we see with a half dozen replies, we have half a dozen different opinions as to how we view America. Let's look at some facts here:
If you start with the Mayflower Compact and then the sermon delivered by John Winthrop entitled
A Model of Christian Charity in 1630 (and cited by such leaders like JFK (Democrat) and Ronald Reagan (Republican) in their speeches, you begin to understand a nation destined for greatness. I suggest that people read Winthrop's sermon and think about how we became who we are:
https://www.casa-arts.org/cms/lib/PA01925203/Centricity/Domain/50/A Model of Christian Charity.pdf
When you think about Benjamin Franklin's discovery of electricity, the Wright brothers making airplanes a viable mode of transportation, or William Shockley's invention of the transistor that ushered in the the computer age, you start to appreciate our contributions to science, transportation, medicine, the arts, and an unmatched history.
People argue about how long the Roman Empire lasted... was it 1000 years or 2100 years?
Did Rome and its Empire really last 2100 years? (Roman, Egypt, events) - History -U.S. and World, studying past, wars, presidents, language, economy - City-Data Forum
I don't know, but I do know that the United States accomplished more in 200 years than the Roman Empire did in all its existence. We built bigger armies, bigger navies with ships that would dwarf anything the Romans ever had. We sent more missionaries out into the world than all other nations combined. We fought in wars for other countries, sacrificing more lives than we can count, never claiming an acre of land that we helped liberate in the name of Liberty.
During our nation's history Communist Russia came and went; the French changed their government more than a dozen times and China, which has existed since biblical times, is just now surpassing as the world's superpower.
I cannot put a date on when America became great, but we were a great nation. Maybe, underneath the quagmire of people wanting us to change our form of government into one of those kinds that has come and gone while our Constitution was in place lies that great nation our forefathers envisioned.
Today I stand on the outside, looking in. I do not see the great leadership from either side of the political aisle. All we have are political propaganda prostitutes using us, playing us, and exploiting the divisiveness. Nobody, including Donald Trump, are who they claim they are. I'm not bashing Trump nor his supporters, just telling this like it is. Donald Trump is an anti-gun globalist who has been able to crow about getting the right to see things his way. We have. America is being pushed further and further left. Trump drains the swamp and we find he's surrounded by hucksters most of us wouldn't trust with a nickel. But, where do we go?
The Democrats with Universal Healthcare, gun control, and a commitment to the destruction of America via multiculturalism isn't an option. Socialism was failing when America was thriving so it would appear to me that what we need to do is find out
WHEN we think America reached its zenith and incrementally work our way back to that point. Again, thank all of you for your input. If anything, it showed me that we do not have a blueprint for making America great again. We aren't even agreed on when it was great to begin with.
