Patriot’s Journey 2007 - America

In this post at Moorewatch, Londoner, one of the commenters is taking Americans to task for believing that this is the greatest country on earth.  Like so many who see value in Moore, he claims to like America and Americans, but spends a lot of time insulting the country and us as individuals, and curiously little effort extolling even a single virtue.

My reply to one of his comments is below.

I’m sorry that you consider our pride in our country and a belief that we can, if we try, accomplish anything to be bad things.

America is the greatest economic power on earth.  We’re currently the greatest military power, and regardless of some of the setbacks by the Bush Administration, the greatest scientific power.  We’re running neck and neck with the Japanese on the technology front.

Do we have flaws?  Yep.  Same ones everyone else has.  The difference is, we don’t use those flaws to define ourselves.  Well, most of us don’t anyway.  I find it sad that other people use what is negative about themselves to define them.  I don’t want to live like that.  Sorry you don’t like it, but that’s just one of the long list of reasons that we wanted to be citizens and not subjects.

Your claim that some Europeans don’t see themselves as superior to not only Americans but everyone else is laughable at best.  We could go around and around telling anecdotes, citing examples, “proving” that at the end of the day, people all over the world think that the way they do things is the best.

Right now, at this point in history, we are the top dogs.  It’s not an accident that we got here in such a remarkably short period of time.  There are buildings in England older than this entire country.  Other nations have had thousands of years head start on us, and yet here we are.

You can talk about it as a negative all day, but you won’t shame us into a false display of humility just to appease others.  We kick ass.  Plain and simple.  Even when we fight amongst ourselves.  Even when we elect fairly assholish presidents.  Even though we make the same mistakes all other human beings make...The United States of America kicks ass.  To paraphrase Diamond Dave, ain’t nothin’ like it in the whole world.

Posted by JimK at 10:50 AM on June 14, 2007
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