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It is like the old song “she’s close enough to perfect for me.” When there is freedom to travel unfettered and engage in discovering your well of living water, what is there to complain about? So many people have sacrificed for us to have the freedoms we do. I appreciate their courage. People are pouring in from our southern border, do they know something many Americans don’t know or appreciate?

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Wow, this resonates with me deeply. As a child of the United States who has lived away for many years I feel this internal divide. The love yet also disdain for the country of my birth.

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America the land where you fake it till you make it then you learn the truth in life and overcome or fail. Europe/the rest of the world where you learn it till you make it then you reach a state of nirvana your happy pass it on and pass away. American needs more teaching from the past to move forward, no need to reinvent constantly. Look to those who lived in harmony with the land and them selves. America is the potential for the world to be better your still the beacon in all of us.

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That was beautiful. As an always outside-observer to the US, I feel it summed up perfectly by the line, "You offer the best and the worst expressions of what humanity can be."

How I adore the American individualism which produces such strong-willed, kind, adventurous and creative people.

How I abhor the American individualism which produces such selfish, obnoxious, afraid and hateful people.

Both of these, to the utmost, and everything in-between.

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Mmm i really enjoyed this read. The less we pretend to control the more we can actually feel and expand. Not as an empire but as a people. To recognize what we’ve done and learn from it. Big practice in humility.

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The pursuit of happiness dictates an euphoria that is sustained and not fluid, but I do agree with your message. America needs to go with the flow, evolve, and learn to love it's fluidity!

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