In this day of disparaging America’s roots, history and direction, I decided to make a list of why the good old US of A is still the brightest hope in the world. A generation of 
students that were poisonously weaned on Howard Zinn’s A People’s History of the United States, would do themselves (and their fellow citizens) a lot better with more accurate historical books such as A History of The American People (Johnson), The Americans (Boorstin), The Federalist Papers (Madison/Hamilton/Jay) and Democracy in America (de Tocqueville) .
Sure, it’s easy to look back on historical figures like George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Father Serra, Teddy Roosevelt and cast judgment on them, as if we are so much more “enlightened” as we have just left the most murderous century in world history.
With that in mind, I’m going to make a list of why America was, and IS, the greatest country in world history.
Yes, we had slaves when our country began in 1776, but the dirty little secret is…SO DID THE REST OF THE WORLD! The difference with America (and England) is that we ended slavery, and unlike England, we had a civil war to abolish it. What did South America do with their slaves? They killed them.
If we are such a racist country, then why are there more blacks in America now that have immigrated on their own choice from Africa than are descendents of slaves? It’s been that way since the 1980s!- The poverty level of a two parent black family is lower than a two parent white family, and the annual income of a two parent (two child) black family is 1% higher than a comparable white family.
- Thanks to Roger Williams, we are all allowed to choose our religion, and we can change our faith from what we grew up in. This is still a radical concept. I do medical
mission work in the Third World, and hear harrowing stories of people being thrown in jail, poisoned or killed because they converted to another religion. - Thanks to the First Amendment, we are allowed to print or say anything we want. Anyone ever hear of Tiananmen Square? Sure, there is a lot of “fake news” out there, but we are also able to get information that proves that it IS fake.
- Our entrance into WW’s I and II put an end to the quagmires, and ended a world threatening dictator’s grip on the world. Also, while The Korean and Vietnam wars are either ignored or criticized, one must remember that in all of these wars did we have little or any imperialist designs. We fought to give liberty
to other nations and peoples. We fought to end the horrors of communism and fascism. (both of which are now lauded in today’s colleges) - Our country, along with UK’s Margaret Thatcher and Pope John Paul, was able to dismantle Communist Russia’s grip on the world and liberate millions of
people. - Our country is unique in that it was not founded on race, ethnicity or nationality, but on certain principles. Want proof? What was the largest ethnicity of American soldiers that fought Germany in WWI? GERMANS! The ideas of our country are found on our coinage:
In God We Trust, E Pluribus Unum and Liberty. Why did France give us, and not Mexico, the Statue of Liberty? - We are by far the least racist multi-racial country in the world. What other white majority country has had a black member like Barak Obama become president? Anyone want India’s caste system, or Africa’s tribal system?
- We are by far the most generous people in the world. Religious Americans give 10% of their income to charity (even with the burdensome taxes), and many give at least 3%.
I told this to my Greek relatives one time and they had to be revived! - We always talk about the “poverty gap” between rich and poor, but what no one (except economist Thomas Sowell) bothers to mention is that the people in these two groups is not fixed. In other words, people that were in the poor group 25 years earlier have taken one generation to rise to the top. One of my grandfathers was a waiter, my grandmother a mail-order bride. They scrimped so my dad could go to college, he became an
engineer, and my sister became a nurse and I became a chiropractor. THAT is the American dream.
- This country also gave us jazz and baseball, two of the greatest gifts to the world. The former is the perfect balance between freedom and form in art, and the latter best represents the dynamics between individual performance and team effort.
What other country could bless the world with these gifts?