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A very serious piece about unserious stuff posed a serious

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Ed McFadden's avatar

The core issue is America no longer have what for about 175 years was a largely accepted national "way of life." I'm not talking about our social moral failings that someone surely will jump on (enslavement, hindering women's rights), though there is no doubt they are part of our nation's fabric. But the broader, altruistic principles - not "values" - that shaped the worldview and built a nation of five, six, seven generations of strong and good men and women and showed us the "way" toward a civil society worth attaining and perpetuating. The majority that may very well wish to perpetuate it (from welcoming immigrants to fulfilling the promises to our seniors and those in need of a government's helping hand, to equal treatment for all and a quality education that doesn't shy away from the facts or Western Civ) are shouted down, caricatured, and made to feel the minority. That "way of life" has been replaced by the path to inexorable mediocrity and decline.

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