A progressive commenter on DailyKos wrote a love letter to America.
I love the myth of America. I love hard working immigrants fighting against the tired old world and the mean new world. I love my great-grandparent tales - on ships, cattle thieves, gamblers and drunks. I love Sandberg's Hog butcher to the world and Williams's White chickens. I like the Mormons making a kingdom in the desert, the Texans stealing Texas, Teddy fighting roughshod. I love Zinn's telling of courage, organizing, brave fights for the people of America. I love the underground railroad. I love the reformers. I love the sweatshop girls trapped in pinned down shirt factories being burned as if in hell. And I love those who rise up for justice, to end the hells of our past and present.
