From P.J. O'Rourke of the Weekly Standard:
An entire generation has been born, grown up, and had families of its own since Ronald Reagan was elected. And where is the world we promised these children of the Conservative Age? Where is this land of freedom and responsibility, knowledge, opportunity, accomplishment, honor, truth, trust, and one boring hour each week spent in itchy clothes at church, synagogue, or mosque? It lies in ruins at our feet, as well it might, since we ourselves kicked the shining city upon a hill into dust and rubble.That's just it. Despite what nutjob O'Rourke writes, America is a nation of freedom, responsibility, knowledge, opportunity, great accomplishment, honor and truth, and full of church attending families. But to neocons America can only be full of those things when government is controlled by Republicans, which is so untrue it's pathetically been shaken to its core these last few years. To them, the "real America" cannot be achieved and won't be achieved by anybody or any Party unless it's with the belief that the Republican Party is the only Party able and trustworthy enough to lead this country. It's total garbage and the very thought pattern that delivers such mind control to Republicans is a disease that has squashed any chance of them coming to terms with reality.
Ronald Reagan did not invent a great America. Nor did he create an America of freedom, responsibility, knowledge, opportunity, accomplishment and religion. All of that was in place long before Reagan ever came around. The make-believe neocon world, though, believes the "real America" began in 1980 and has since been squandered away by people who do not believe in their core set of values. It never happened that way. This is what's wrong with the GOP. It did not kick to dust the shiny city on a hill, it took at face value a shiny city on a hill instead of the metaphor it was meant to be.
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