we are the greatest country on earth!!!
that is the mantra of the right and yet are we?
I would say no…
NO, WHAT BLASPHEMY… TRAITOR… TRAITOR…
comes the calls from the bleachers…
and of the charge that we are not the greatest country on earth?
I come from a sports background… I’ve played sports since I was 4…
in sports, you have to prove yourself every single day…
even if you win the championship of that year and I have…
you still must go out and prove it again the next year…
and a baseball player who helps win the championship hitting
275… must still go out the next year and become better…
you must improve yourself because the other guy is out there working
hard to improve himself…you can’t be happy hitting 275… you must improve
your average to 280 or 300… if you want to win the game…
and we in America don’t work to improve ourselves…
others are working far harder to improve themselves while
we spend our time congratulating ourselves on being the greatest country on earth…
as a country we must improve and part of the improvement involves
helping our citizens improving themselves in some fashion…
this is a team effort to improve ourselves… we must become something
more then we are today… to really be able to make the claim that we
are the greatest country on earth… our citizens must be happier and
wiser and wealthier then other countries to be able to make that claim that we are the greatest
country on earth. if we have citizens who are poor and trying to make it, then we cannot
in any sense of the word, claim to be the “greatest”…
if the police is killing black people then we cannot claim to be
the greatest country on earth… well, one might say, a few bad
apples… but we cannot and I cannot accept that as an answer…
a few bad apples as an excuse is not what makes a country great…
as a runner, I cannot excuse a bad outing by saying a few bad apples…
if I ran a shitty race, and I ran a few, then one person and one person
is responsible and that is me… but if we let down large segments of
the population and allow to exist in poverty and despair, then we are
the few bad apples…and we don’t allow that excuse to exist anymore…
we in society have failed if even one person exists in poverty…
yes, we must set the bar that high if we want to be considered the
greatest country on earth… for to be the greatest country on earth means
you have passed a very high standard and we have failed at that…
we must overcome, not only who we are individually but together…
we are judge not only individually but collectively… to be the greatest
country on earth we cannot have a “few bad apples”, we must all become
accountable…to become something greater requires work, a lot of hard work…
are you prepared to work hard to become part of the greatest country one earth?
no excuses… for those who say, it is someone’s else fault that we aren’t
the greatest country on earth…I am doing my best…
your best is no longer good enough…to become
the best, you must work harder then your best…
if you want to hit 300 or run a 4 minute mile, you must
work beyond your best… if you want to be part of the greatest
country on earth… you have to offer up no more excuses and
be prepared to work… to be the best, you must work the hardest…
are we in this country working to be the best or… or are
we just interested in just keeping the status quo… and
if you are interested in just keeping the status quo… then
you are not the best and you don’t exist in the greatest
country on earth… for the greatest country on earth must earn
that title every single day by getting better and Improving every single day…
what are you overcoming to become the best every single day?
Kropotkin