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Spoiler: The greatest thing about this country is our near universal respect for the concept of freedom, albeit perhaps slightly divergent ideas of what that idea entails. To maintain this, we need to encourage diversity of ideas, and promote an active and vigourous sustained national debate about what exactly our freedoms entail.
One of our greatest problems is a seeming decline of compassion, that is a lessening sense of understanding for what our fellow citizens are undergoing. We are all too willing to write off a homeless person or welfare recipient as a lazy ne'r-do-well, or to eagerly take away someones guns because we don't like them, or condemn a whole community because we don't share their sexual preferences. We need to promote a sense of civic pride and responsibility, and a sense that our freedoms are only as well protected as our willingness to protect the freedoms of others.
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"Don't tell me we're so blind we cannot see that this is my land! I can't pretend that it's nothing to do with me.
And this is your land, you can't close your eyes to this hypocracy.
Yes this is my land, I won't pretend that it's nothing to do with me.
'Cause this is our land, we can't close our eyes to the things we don't wanna see."
- DTH
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