• American Dynamism

    From ltlee1@21:1/5 to All on Sun Oct 13 14:04:27 2024
    "History reminds us: America is and always has been a freak show. We
    should accept this in ourselves more, that it is in our nature as a
    people. When the floodwaters receded and camp towns sprang up, the
    region’s prostitutes came in, followed by the ladies of the Christian Temperance Union. We are cantankerous. When strangers who had survived overnight in an attic saw that a stone church next door had broken the
    wall of water, someone said, “The Methodist church saved us.” Within seconds a voice shot out: “Only the Catholic Church can save!”

    We did something nobody ever tried before, to fill a continent with
    people from every country in the world, and ask them to come, build
    something, get along, and invent an arrangement of rules and rights by
    which they could operate together. It produced a dazzling, strange and
    gifted nation, a freak show, and a fabulous one.

    To read our history is to say, “We got through that.”

    We’ve got through a lot. Whatever’s coming, immediately and further out, we’ll likely get through that, too."

    https://www.wsj.com/opinion/what-a-deadly-flood-revealed-about-america-history-natural-disasters-16905344

    Unfortunately, no one could objectively nail down the "likely". And realistically speaking, the US will never be as target rich as before.

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