Today, I don't have anything unique to be thankful for that I haven't already mentioned, but I'd like to list some obvious things.
1. For my great and suppportive friends and family
2. For the prosperity in our lives that allows our kids to pick and choose what they do and don't want to eat at any given meal
3. For living in a free society where we can practice things like democracy, freedom of religion, free speech, and all those other warm and fuzzy things we tend to take for granted.
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All I'll say is that I think there's too much emphasis on democracy these days, and it's true meaning mostly lost. It is totally different things to too many people, who also assume those they are speaking with interpret it the same way that they do. Even when two Americans agree on what it means, they often over-estimate it's importance to our society and way of life.
ReplyDeleteI'm coming to see that what truly makes us great is more about our LIBERTIES than our RIGHT TO VOTE. After all, many totalitarian governments hold elections, it's not just the vote but the degree of informed consent and what degree of influence that vote is allowed to have which tells the rest of the story. We are, after all, a society where a huge percentage of voters are all fascinated by words like "SOCIALISM", and have passionate vote-dictating opinions about the word. Unfortunately, those same people couldn't define it if their life, and the life of their family, depended on it.
We enjoy the good fortune of having founders of such vision that their ideas and ideals have stood the test of time and MANY changes impossible to foresee so long ago. Had it not been for the liberties and rights they had the foresight to grant, we'd likely have drowned in a sea of stupidity of our own making - pulled under by the mass whims of the easily manipulated and those who understand how to pull their strings.