Make America Great Again?
That phrase has never made much sense to me because I've never been able to wrap my head around what it was supposed to mean.
The phrase forces you to try to think of a time when America
was great, but that’s a foolhardy errand. You can’t look backwards and see
America’s greatness because it’s not there, it's here.
Despite the boast of “equal opportunity for all,” discrimination has been with us since our founding. Consequently, America has never been "great" for at least a portion of the population.
Despite the boast of “equal opportunity for all,” discrimination has been with us since our founding. Consequently, America has never been "great" for at least a portion of the population.
There has never been a time when America WAS great.
America IS Great!
Our greatness isn’t tied to a time in the past; America’s
greatness is ever-present.
Our founding fathers wove America’s greatness into the
fabric of the country. They gave America its greatness when they gave us the
ability to make it better, and over time that’s what we’ve done.
At the end of the Pledge Of Allegiance is the promise of "liberty and justice for all," and although that goal is elusive, it is one worth striving for.
Sometimes it feels like we’ve fought very hard to take
three steps forward, when we are forced to take two giant strides back, but the net
result is still progress.
America will never arrive at that place called “great”
because we will always be in the process of making it better. America’s
greatness is the journey; it’s not a destination. There will always be
something to fix, but thankfully we have the ability to fix it.