Americans have an unusual capacity to swallow fairy tales about themselves. Even if it was discovered that Norman Rockwell was actually a child molester, the sentiment-infused, backward-directed vision of the hearth would smother all the newsworthy hypocrisies each generation must survive as it presses on in search of new ways to define community. This is why such terms as “family values” and “Mom’s apple pie” resonate, and why we insist we are a nation founded on a generous spirit and powered by a people’s “simple virtues.”...
..."Our political mythology is stuck on the constant longing for an earlier-imagined simplicity, a return to fairness by stripping away barriers of bureaucracy."
This article is an interesting analysis of the swamp that needs draining and why it has come to this. Read on.
At www.salon.com
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