Well, I personally do not feel a lot of malaise. I feel optimism and hope. I think we are on the right track and I think, with all her flaws, America is the greatest country ever.
I get disgusted at the left and at Hollywood and the media but it comforts me to know that they are in a more inchoate state of rage at Trump than anyone here could possibly be.
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So America is the greatest ever???
Reflect on these a moment.
* Representative Governance in the form of a Republic or Democracy (Pericles and Solon).
* Geometry, which showed the creation of structure in 3-dimensi space (Euclid and Pythagoras).
* History, a timeline of the past identifying place and person (Herodotus and Thucydides).
* Stories reflecting the experiences of Man in the form of the:
#Novel (Homer's Iliad and Odyssey),
#Drama (such as the Comedies of Aristophanes or the Tragedies of Aeschylus and Sophocles),
#Poetry (Pindar).
* Architecture, including the Acropolis and Parthenon.
* Logic and Philosophy (Plato and Aristotle).
* Science, among them:
#Botany which measured the economic importance of plant life; the catalyst for formal Agriculture,
#Biology which determined the life span of living organisms,
#Medicine which identified and sought the cure of disease, leading to Surgery,
#Physics which measured energy, force and motion within mature.
These are a few of the creations from the Greeks of Athens, Corinth, Thebes
and the rest; spanning dozens of pages in the Britannica.
Humility not hubris is the prerequisite for reflection and learning; understanding that we are mere
dwarfs who understand what we do because of the legacy of knowledge and wisdom created by the Giants of Antiquity who preceded us and upon whose shoulders we stand!!!