America is still the shining city on a hill

[Seiad]

We are not perfect. By any stretch.

But this past election gives me such hope and conviction that we are who we are. An American democracy.

Cheers to the American people!
Tom

[Walleye]

1. My first thought, thank goodness the United States isn't over after all

[Seiad]

4. Yep.

I always had faith in it, but then I lost faith a bit the past decade, but I needed to look at the long haul. With what happened in the 60's / 70's, we go through these things. But Americans always come around it seems, and it's only because of our democracy. So it's great to see it working....

[Walleye]

6. And it is nice to know our President has the same kind of faith in America

[Shermann]

2. The shining city...

or The Shining hotel??

[Seiad]

5. LOL. Trump is trying to make a reservation. NT

[onecaliberal]

3. I'm not allowed to make decisions for my own life in this city on a hill, so no.

[Seiad]

7. I don't know exactly

but I can try to see that. I can try to understand. I'm white and male, so I don't see a lot. But I believe it's worth fighting for.

[onecaliberal]

10. I e been fighting my whole life and women are going backward. We have little to no voice.

Every problem they affects men, a quick solution is found. Women don’t matter.

[Seiad]

12. Not from this voter. Women rock.

[Mr.Bill]

8. One thing that hasn't changed in my lifetime

is lots of people seem to want to come here.

[Seiad]

9. I thought about that, too.

Why is that. Even when you're at war with us (Russia, etc.), they all still want to come here. Hmmm...

[AntivaxHunters]

11. I wish I believed that

But considering over 90% of tribal communities don't have clean drinking water, no, I don't.
This country was built the mass genocide of my ancestors and the slavery of Black people.
And that continues today.
We have a LOT of work to do before we can come close to countries like Denmark, New Zealand, and the Scandinavian countries.
We consistently rank low in the social safety net.

[Seiad]

14. That needs to be fixed

I spend a lot of my time with the Karuk tribe in northern California. I know them fairly intimately. And I know the history. Let's keep fighting for indigenous rights. They know how to take care of the land.

[Marcus IM]

13. Who's hill?

[Seiad]

18. That's a good question

seems to be from the poster's opinion, in this case mine. It's easy to say something when it's from my own point of view. I really like being challenged by this board, although I don't post much. It's seeing all of the different opinions that makes us stronger. We're nuanced, which is our strength. So thank you, I'm not exactly all that sure.

[Justice matters.]

15. Not anymore (since at least the Reagan sh!t show).

FACTS
Wealth Inequality in the United States
The United States exhibits wider disparities of wealth between rich and poor than any other major developed nation.

https://inequality.org/facts/wealth-inequality/

Three 'families' own more wealth than 50% of the population

Trickle UP economics.

[Autumn]

16. No. Not any more. We are in a stand still position and we will remain that way for some time.

[Seiad]

17. Agreed.

I guess I was expecting the worst, and was surprised that democracy came through, even if it was just to stop the "madness". But we have a long way to go, I agree.