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Re: City on a hill

By: Cactus Flower in ALEA | Recommend this post (0)
Sun, 03 Jan 21 10:40 AM | 34 view(s)
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The irony that Mitt Romney invoked the self-congratulatory statement that America is the world's greatest democracy while being shocked at the behaviour of some senators is noted.

The obvious fact that America is not an especially robust democracy and requires many fixes is the point.

But I certainly think his intervention in favour of democracy and the rule of law is laudable. Biden won. The Bananarepublic lost. Many Bananarepublicans belong in jail. They know it.

But if the USA is to divide, I'd rather it was done peacefully.

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City on a hill
By: Cactus Flower in ALEA
Sat, 02 Jan 21 5:11 AM 		Msg. 40368 of 54959

Nice article, partly about a book about the city on a hill thing. I didn't realise that John Winthrop was only a minor character in American history until his role was burnished by JFK and turned into a beacon by Reagan.

It's the combination of Reagan's perversion of the original protestant city on a hill idea to the shining city, and the combination of that with the notion of American exceptionallism, which is where America's view of itself changed. It went from being on a journey of its own to thinking it had arrived and was the exemplar for all mankind. In fact, of course, this was where it all went wrong.

Hope Biden can encapsulate a new image.

http://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/01/is-america-still-the-shining-city-on-a-hill/617474/

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