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Imagining America's Exceptionalism
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| So is it the New York Times piece that we're a cult? | |
| LA Times? | |
| It's a big cult. | |
| 60 million people cult. | |
| It might be the biggest cult ever. | |
| Is it the biggest cult ever? | |
| There are people on the left who believe that Christianity is a cult. | |
| So it's not the biggest cult ever. | |
| There you have a billion people in a cult. | |
| From the left's perspective. | |
| The press is so dishonest. | |
| The achievements of this president are so remarkable. | |
| If there were a conservative press, we would just be smiles in this country. | |
| I want you to imagine a conservative New York Times, a conservative news network, CNN. Imagine that. | |
| Imagine you send your kid to a university. | |
| I mean, let's play John Lennon's game of imagine. | |
| I imagine sending my kid to university. | |
| And coming home and saying, you know, Mom and Dad, my professor emphasized the fifth of the Ten Commandments, that I honor my mother and father, even though, you know, I've had issues with you, Mom and Dad, but nevertheless, there's no asterisk at that commandment. | |
| You know, I still may not agree with you on everything, but you're certainly going to get my honor as my parents. | |
| You know, Mom and Dad, I took a course in American history and I realized this country is really exceptional. | |
| Everybody had slavery, but America fought a war to abolish it. | |
| And that's why more black Africans have come to America voluntarily as immigrants that came involuntarily as slaves. | |
| You know, Mom and Dad, I didn't know that until my professor of history showed me that. | |
| I have such a more positive view of this country. | |
| Of course, before class, as class started, we took the Pledge of Allegiance and then resumed our studies. | |
| I realized that, you know, I had a pretty radically secular upbringing, but America was really founded on what I now understand are Judeo-Christian principles. | |
| That even Jefferson, who is no Christian as such, made it clear that if there's no God, if the Creator doesn't give us our rights, then they're not inalienable. | |
| Men give rights. | |
| Men take rights. | |
| God gives rights. | |
| They're permanent. | |
| They're fixed. | |
| Can you imagine that, my dear listener? | |
| Your kid coming home from college like that? | |
| You turn on the conservative news network, still called CNN. They tell you how good the economy is. | |
| They delineate the evil of Soleimani. | |