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7 Reasons To Be Optimistic About America's Future

Harold206 Wrote: Nov 27, 2012 8:20 AM
As for me, I need some optimism, and this column provides it. However, I plan to emulate our president in saluting our distressed flag in the same manner that he taught us--what I have dubbed "the O-pose." Here is how it is performed whenever he National Anthem is played or the ledge of Allegiance is recited: Stand at loose attention with head bowed and hands clasped in front of the crotch. It isn't a sign of disrespect for the flag or the country, but rather a symbol of our distress for them.

Although studies show that we conservatives are usually happier and more optimistic than most about our personal lives, we also tend to be a bit more pessimistic than the average person about the country. We look at our unsustainable level of spending, the dramatically expanding, increasingly lawless welfare state, encouragement of tribalism and class hatred as a political tactic, hostility towards Christianity, schools that teach socialism and liberalism, the morally bankrupt entertainment industry and the reelection of a man who may have had the single worst performance as President of anyone in our nation's history and we quite naturally...

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