Just crazy enough to work
The man who “flipped the switch” on MTV and HBO has a few ideas about turning this country around:
I’m not talking about any particular affinity I might have for her people, or her purple mountains majesty, or any of that. That stuff can be found elsewhere. No, what I love is the idea of America, the abject audacity of it. Equality, life, liberty, the pursuit of happiness, government of by and for its people, freedom of and freedom from religion, as well as from poverty, hunger, want, slavery, and on and on forever. America. The sheer fearlessness of the idea is astounding. America has allowed me to live an amazing life just by playing hard and playing fair. I’ve lived a life my immigrant grandparents could never have imagined. I’ve never suffered at the hands of a biased or unfair institution. When pushed, I’ve pushed back harder, spoken my mind without fear of official reprisal. I want only the same for my kids, and theirs, and every kid who wants to play fair, and swing for the fences. That’s not so much to ask – hell, to demand!
So. I for one will not stand idly by and watch it all brought to its knees in the gutless coup our current “leadership” and their treasonous puppeteers are attempting. Will you? </i>
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