Even Optimists Have Bad Days
Like most humans I am generally an optimist. Also like most humans sometimes it's really hard to be an optimist. That's kind of what happened here. This post should have been easy to write but turned out to be much more difficult because of events in the world as I was writing. It changed my whole outlook and direction so this is my third effort at it. It still isn't exactly right but the famous saying, "don't let perfect be the enemy of the good" comes to mind. This is far from perfect but hopefully will be good enough to make my point. I also hope you will see why this has been so difficult in the end. American Myths V s American Reality My original intent was to simply comment on a recent survey done by the Wall Street Journal. The survey found that “Patriotism, religious faith, having children and other priorities that helped define the national character for generations are receding in importance to Americans.” This survey should raise a lot of questio