The Free Liberal
by Robert Capozzi

11/16/05

In your heart, you know something has gone wrong. Terribly, horribly wrong. With the world. With America. And even with your life. This is a thoroughly negative perspective, and yet, try as one might, it's a conclusion that is difficult not to, in those quiet moments in which we really reflect on the state of affairs, quietly nod in agreement. Surely there are blessings. Much seemed to have gone very right. Americans, at least, are by and large healthy (if overfed) and wealthy, if not wise. Except for the hardest cases, even those among us who are considered 'poor' have more materially than most on Earth, and far more than perhaps 99% of those who've ever lived. The answer to what's gone wrong perhaps is found in, of all places, a quartet of films with the word 'America' or 'American' in it...

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Informant: Thomas L. Knapp