To some it means to love liberty. It means freedom. It means never being told what to do.
It means having the opportunity to accumulate enormous wealth.
It means being able to afford an enormous car, even if from an environmental point of view, owning it puts a burden on air and water quality.
It means being able to buy cheap goods, even if it is produced by poorly-paid foreign workers.
It means being able to have a guaranteed white-collar job, even without knowing as much as, or having the skills of, your foreign counterpart in an equivalent job.
It means being able to afford expensive medical treatment, and being able to afford an expensive legal battle if your doctor makes a mistake.
It means being able to live like a king, far from the accusing eyes of the poor.
It means being able to use up all the wilderness in the USA, but being able to go look at interesting wildlife anytime you feel like it.
It means being able to have good, organic food wholesomely produced in small farms that do not exist anymore.
It means being able to fill up your enormous gas-guzzling SUV with oil that was stolen from poor people who live somewhere else.
It means having the right to have your children taught senseless fairy tales about nature, and yet have them be sufficiently well educated to be able to produce the drugs required to treat the diseases that your lavish lifestyle will surely cause in the poisoned environment you live in.
It means demanding a sophisticated world with expensive services which you do not want to pay for with taxes.
It means having an excellent education for your kids, taught by poorly-paid people whom you curse and vilify at every opportunity.
It means never going to the polls to vote, but being furious at the idiots who are elected to office.
Do we want to continue to be American?
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