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Originally Posted by Botnst
We have 20/20 vision concerning our own mistakes--that's what a free press and elections are designed to address. It's just that some people fixate myopically on the bad way out of proportion to the good, to the point that they cannot speak of good without temporizing.
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I like your use of myopia in this context. It is most appropriate.
Myopia, plust the use of industrial-strength blinders keep people from seeing the good that is in America.
I don't think that even the most rabid, right wing conservative would ever go as far as saying that America is perfect.
The opposite, however, is not the case. Rabid, left-wing, American-haters will never, ever, say anything good about the country or the current government.
It is always: bad this, bad that, bad, bad, bad.
No wonder that the better educated and better off financially conservatives seem to be happier (according to the Pew poll).