There’s plenty to question about how the American system is working. A quick scan of the headlines provides plenty of fodder:
• Did the President practice deceit while rationalizing an invasion of Iraq? Does anybody care?
• If the state Constitution says that public education is the Legislature’s top priority, why is the most money on prisons?
• How can the Supreme Court of a nation that is founded on laws and the principle of free speech, rule that publically funded libraries should muffle that speech with Internet filters?
• If this is a representative democracy, why do so many local political races go unchallenged?
How can America call itself the greatest nation on Earth with so many questions, such base-level dichotomies?
The answer is in the fact that these questions and endless others may be raised at all. America is great because Americans can question without fear.
Such a place, such a system isn’t perfect. It grows, it evolves, it makes stumbles. It is a place of great personal freedoms and greater personal responsibilities.
Such a place deserves a day to stop and remember and honor the wonderfulness of this experiment called America, a day such as tomorrow, July 4th.
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