This country did not get to be the greatest country on earth by a bunch of "scared" people.
Problem is, OC, once you achieve great, it doesn't just happen automatic. You have to maintain it, and we aren't. We have a clod of people in this nation enjoying the benefits, but unwilling to work and make the sacrifice necessary to maintain and continue that greatness. That's what scares me.
I have a friend, principal in the NY Phil, who once he achieved that position, found he had to spend even more time in prep and practice, to maintain the chair, because of the tremendous pressure of all the others who wanted it too.
Typically as American, we require some national shock to get motivated. Pearl Harbor, Sputnik, assassination of JFK. You would think the WTC attack would be sufficient cause. In NYC, things happened, and people took back their city. Crime plummeted... But the rest of the nation just let "gubbermint" do it, with wrong action in the wrong place, against the wrong people. NYC apparently caught the disease, and is drifting back into complacency, along with renewed selfcenteredness, and accompanying crime.
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