The Real America

I stumbled upon this article by the somewhat eccentric writer Bill Kauffman, and I think it is really a beautiful article about America. I highly recommend you read it.

This is a quote from the article I found particularly exceptional.

“So no, I do not feel “ashamed” of my country, for America, as John Fogerty understood, is not Bush or Cheney or Lieberman or Kerry but my friends, my neighbors, and yes, the Grand Canyon, too. Even better, it is the little canyon and the rude stream and Tom Sawyer’s cave and all those places whose names we know, whose myths we have memorized, and whose existence remains quite beyond the ken of the Department of Homeland Security.”