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<\/a><\/p>\nMay you live to see your tricentennial.\u00a0 For all its failings, for all its missing the mark of its own lofty standards, it\u2019s still been one of the greatest single undertakings in human history.\u00a0 Today, as so many seem eager to put a stop to everyone else\u2019s liberties, as our place in the top spot of the world seems threatened, as the population continues to lumber on like so many extras from the set of The Walking Dead, I\u2019m still optimistic that this country can survive.\u00a0 Put me in that camp of Catholics who see America as a great nation, whose greatness is threatened only by the lax example and compromising that defines so many Americans, including Catholics.\u00a0 While those conservatives are not immune to failing \u2013 I\u2019m thinking torture in recent years \u2013 I\u2019ve not given up hope.\u00a0 But that\u2019s because the alternative, the post-modern progressive movement, which promises, for the time being, freedom for hedonism and oppression and censorship for everything else, is the single greatest threat to our freedom that we\u2019ve faced since 1780.\u00a0 So happy birthday America, may your citizens wake up and realize that by focusing on the bad for all these years, we\u2019ve set the stage for losing anything that was ever good, and once lost, it will not be recovered easily, if ever again this side of heaven.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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