This is from Andreas S., Rhineland-Palatine, Germany. I have left it un-edited. If f-bombs offend you then skip it.
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Yours is still the country that chased Richard Nixon out of office.
Yours is still the country where sons of privilege felt compelled to fight in the Spanish civil war, for no other reason than their conviction.
Yours is still the country that joined the two bloodiest wars known to mankind not out of necessity, but out of the deep conviction that good people cannot stand by idly in the face of evil.
Yours is still the country where a simple question - "Do you have no decency?" - could mark the unmaking of Joseph McCarthy's reign of fear; and the country that was able to recover after that without mutating into an authoritarian monstrosity.
Yours is still the country where an unknown elderly woman's simple act of refusing to bow to oppression was enough to start a social revolution. A revolution that inspired entire generations in places all over the world.
Yours is still the country that carried the flame when almost all of Europe fell into darkness - and the country without which light would have been decades, and millions more of lives lost, away.
As corny and overused as reminiscing those facts may seem - it changes nothing about their being true. Those sides of your society are as true as the nastiness that swept Trump into office. You cannot have one without the other - You cannot have the glory without the ugly. But neither can you have the shoddiness without the beautiful.
Yes, this is bad. Really bad. It's so bad that seasoned politicians all over the world are going "WTF????? What are we going to do with that?". Harder times are coming, and none of us can look into the future entirely without fear.
You dream big, 'Murrica, and you fall hard. Get up again. You've done this before, you will do it again. You are a horrible nuisance, you drive us nuts 6 times out of 10, and the simplest concepts seem to appear to you as arcane as quantum field theory, while the hardest problems seem to barely make you even hesitate - you are obnoxious like that. But we still need you. We still believe in you.
Get up again, Murrica. You've done this before, you will do it again.
Look around you, see what you have achieved, what you have proven to be possible and remember this for the time ahead: "Yes. We fucking can."
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