Every great nation has its failures, great and small, in which it does not live up to its values. America is not an exception, and we know what those failures are. But greatness is measured in a nation’s ability to admit its failures, right itself and move forward in its commitment to its values.
America’s values of liberty, freedom, equality and opportunity have made our nation envied and admired. Sadly and frighteningly, we now have a large part of our population who want to deny the truth of our history, who fear and distort the very values that America has lived by, among them white supremacists, evangelicals and the core of the Republican Party.
America has become a fearful nation, a violent nation, a divided nation, a nation unable to govern itself effectively. We’ve always come back to our values as a nation, and the leaders we’ve needed have always emerged. Where are they now?
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