First of all, this is NOT my opinion of America. Many in our country do feel this way, including some who have held a high office or aspire to it that have expressed those very words.

“Exactly when did you think America was great?” asked Eric Holder, Barack Obama’s former attorney general. “It’s an American past that never, in fact, really existed, this notion of ‘greatness.’”

“We’re not going to make America great again,” New York Democrat Gov. Andrew Cuomo declared. “It was never that great.”

“America was never as great as advertised,” insisted Mayor Pete Buttigieg, Democrat candidate for president

I take issue with this. It seems many on the Left have unreasonable expectations about this country on several levels. Yes, we DID have slavery in our past, as did many nations around the world. I am not saying that to justify slavery, just to state it as a reality that led to a war in which more than 600,000 soldiers died so that all men could be free.

Secondly, they want what can never be — a “perfect” country. There can never be a perfect country because there are no perfect people. Socialism promises a utopia that never comes. The promises that socialists and communists (but then I repeat myself) make appeal to human greed and envy. Who doesn’t like “free stuff?” Who wants to see only other people get stuff? But we who have had to work for what we have understand nothing is free. Someone has to pay for it!

If you are a reader of The Patriot Post, I don’t have to tell you how great America is. I would be preaching to the choir. But I do believe we need to understand that socialist/communists have been playing the long game for some time now. You may be too young to remember the Cold War. Nikita Khrushchev became the Party Leader after the death of Joseph Stalin. In 1956, Khrushchev told Western diplomats, “Whether you like it or not, history is on our side. We will bury you.”

He is also sometimes attributed with saying, “We cannot expect the Americans to jump from capitalism to communism, but we can assist their elected leaders in giving Americans small doses of socialism, until they suddenly awake to find they have communism.” Does that sound familiar? Ask Bernie Sanders, who honeymooned in the Soviet Union.

Prior to the Civil War and toward the end of the Second Great Awakening, a French Diplomat came to visit America. After traveling across the country, Alexis de Tocqueville had a few things worth revisiting.

“America is great because she is good. If America ceases to be good, America will cease to be great.”

“Not until I went into the churches of America and heard her pulpits flame with righteousness did I understand the secret of her genius and power.”

Then comes the warning: “The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public’s money.”

We don’t need free stuff from politicians of either party who make promises they never keep. What America needs to become great again is to become good again. Goodness comes from the heart, not through legislation.

America needs to turn our hearts back to the God of our Founding Fathers, who came to America to establish a nation unlike any before it. We need another Great Awakening that, like the previous two, changed the moral fabric of the country. Anyone else think our “moral fabric” needs changing?

Something to think about?