I could write a book on this, so here’s how I’d condense it:
I love my country. It’s a deeply complex place based on great ideas, great accomplishments but not without some very disturbing activities and history.
I admire our the ideas of our great leaders but rarely do I admire the leaders themselves. There are some exceptions, though.
I admire and support the military and the Americans who serve in it, like my father and his father, but I myself am not primarily a military-minded person.
America is a vast, diverse and beautiful country with incredible much wealth, culture and resources. We need to constantly progress and evolve if we want to stay alive.
There’s more, and maybe I’ll get into it in another post.
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