Nov. 22, 2017 - Rubin Report - Dave Rubin
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| In case all of you in the good old US of A have missed the turkeys running around for | ||
| dear life this week, tomorrow is Thanksgiving. | ||
| Without even a close second, Thanksgiving is by far my favorite holiday of the year. | ||
| I find that focusing on the three F's, family, friends and food, usually brings out the best in just about everybody. | ||
| Between the tryptophan from the turkey, your booze of choice, and football in the background, all of us, at least in my experience, are just a little bit better on this day which we've set aside to give thanks for all the goodness in our lives. | ||
| Thanksgiving is the ultimate reminder of what it means to be American. | ||
| While most of us have the usual staples of turkey, mashed potatoes, stuffing and cranberry sauce around the table, we also bring in traditions from our own cultures, ethnicities and nationalities. | ||
| This blending of flavors, languages and customs from all over the world is what makes Thanksgiving a uniquely American holiday. | ||
| No offense to Canadian Thanksgiving. | ||
| The melting pot that we've created here has given more freedom to more people from more walks of life than any other country in the history of the world. | ||
| Today, people still yearn to come to America to take part in our freedom, and pretty much nobody wants to leave America, no matter how often celebrities say they will. | ||
| This doesn't mean we're perfect or anywhere close to it, but it does mean that our tradition of freedom, based on and rooted in the pursuit of life, liberty and happiness, is a pretty good starting point for how to build a truly liberal and tolerant society. | ||
| While politics will undoubtedly be discussed around the Thanksgiving table this year, I'm going to do my best to try to veer the conversation always to what brings us together rather than what rips us apart. | ||
| Maybe your uncle is pro-life and you're pro-choice. | ||
| Maybe your sister voted for Hillary but you voted for Trump. | ||
| Maybe you want low taxes and your dad wants to redistribute wealth. | ||
| Whatever those differences are, they are actually the very reason that this country is so great. | ||
| We all get to have our own opinion and fight for what we believe. | ||
| But beyond just the ability to be tolerant of people who are different from us, it's more important that we can still learn from, live with, and even love people who think differently than we do. | ||
| I hope you have a wonderful day tomorrow filled with those three F's I mentioned earlier, friends, family and food, and maybe one more F if you get lucky. | ||
| Either way, let's give thanks tomorrow for all the goodness we have, but often forget to even acknowledge. |
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