“Not Great?” Andrew Cuomo and his Unintended Confession
“We’re not going to make America great again; it was never that great. We have not reached greatness. We will reach greatness when every American is fully engaged…”
-New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, 15 August 2018
Not great?
Really?
While at once signing a bill into New York state law, and attempting to stick his thumb into Donald Trump’s eye by making a snide reference to the President’s campaign slogan “Make America Great Again,” New York Governor Andrew Cuomo (D-NY) put his sizable foot into his sizable mouth on Wednesday, August 15, 2018. In doing so, he unwittingly and unintentionally revealed the deep contempt he, and other so-called “progressives” have towards their own country, the United States of America.
Cuomo is not the first, and by no means is he the only, liberal Democrat to voice his disdain for the United States. Sentiments blaming America first and calling into question America’s greatness have been, and still are, a mainstay of leftist thought throughout the world, so it is no surprise that the New York governor should question America’s greatness- it’s what liberals really think.
Take for instance what Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) said about the entire American justice system, following a Q & A session at Dillard University in New Orleans, earlier this month:
“The hard truth about our criminal justice system: It’s racist…I mean front to back…”
The entire criminal justice system, and all who are part of that justice system- law enforcement, attorneys, judges, the courts, corrections, constitutional protections favoring the accused, “front to back” as she says, “racist.”
It’s all just enough to make us puke, truth be told.
Whether they be liberals, leftists or, as they call themselves “progressives,” politicians (and also pundits, by the way) like Cuomo and Warren basically hate America, though they would never come out and say so outright. Instead, they pursue their nefarious goals of socialism and one-world government by attacking the institutions of our democracy, our founding principles and the history of a country that has done more- far more- to promote and secure the blessings of liberty and equality across the entire world, than any nation or empire ever has before.
The history of American greatness is without question, despite attempts from academics and scholars to erase this history from our children’s textbooks, and call into question this greatness in our classrooms.
Twice in the 20th century Americans sacrificed hundreds of thousands of lives to save the world from totalitarian aggression on lands far away from their own shores. Many tens of thousands more Americans sacrificed their lives attempting to save the world from communist hegemony- again in other lands, far away from the United States. Thousands more Americans have sacrificed their lives in opposition to Islamic extremism, which seeks to bring the world under its domination through global jihad, all in an effort to bring about the final apocalypse.
So much sacrifice, so little respect.
There are countless other examples of American greatness- leading the world during an industrial revolution that created out of nothing, a middle class which bridged the gap between the poverty of many and the wealth of a relative few. Leading the world through technological innovation, the United States enabled the human species to fly in the air, land on the moon, explore the far reaches of the universe, and create the means for instantaneous global communications. No nation in the history of the world has been more generous in its largesse, particularly when it comes to post-war assistance America has given to its erstwhile enemies time and time again, and no nation has done more than America to combat the world’s common maladies- poverty, disease, hunger and yes, oppression.
But that’s not good enough for a New York Governor, a Massachusetts senator and many others from their own Democrat party and persuasion, who see nothing good in America’s past and present because, as they see it, Americans are not “fully engaged,” whatever the hell that means.
As Eric “Otter” Stratton (played by Tim Matheson) incredulously asked his former paramour, Mandy Pepperidge (played by Mary Louise Weller) in the 1978 blockbuster motion picture Animal House, the same question should be asked of all liberals who call into question America’s greatness…
“Not great?”
Think again, Governor.
-Drew Nickell, 17 August 2018
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