Is America Great?

Or does it feel like our greatness is slipping away?

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Don’t send death threats.

The title of this article is a question not a statement. Don’t accuse me of ‘hating’ America. Don’t tell me to go back to the country where I came from.

I came from America.

Attacks on my generation

As a member of Generation X, I am well versed in not being great. Every day growing up I was inundated with articles and talking heads who stated my whole generation was a disappointment. We were entitled, we were lazy, we were slackers. We were all the things that the media accuse the Millennials of being today.

Now that those members of Generation X are in the workforce, have they transformed from being slackers? Are they now great? If news stories exist that sing the virtues of Gen X, I haven’t seen them.

Attacks on the military

If there’s one group that is universally respected, it’s the military. Anytime somebody kneels during the national anthem, people go nuts and say they’re “disrespecting the military.” You aren’t supposed to disrespect the military, that’s the greatest sin of which anyone in America can be accused.