It would be easy to say, as some are, that the United States has made its final turn for the worse and no longer will be the country many once thought of as the best and brightest in the world.
Indeed, recent Supreme Court decisions easily give rise to the belief that the rule of law no longer means what it says and that the country has lost its moral center.
But the United States has been down before, in recent memory and in distant history, and has risen from the deck to shine. On this Independence Day, we need to believe that to feel the best days for the country are still ahead of us.
Yes, the generations that perpetuated those recent rebounds are dead or dying and the ones behind them sometimes appear self-centered and lacking a moral compass, but people can change. Indeed, tough times often cause the selfishness in people to give way to a strength and concern for others that they didn’t know they had.
Even in the last 50 years or so, people despaired for the country’s future, only to have a leader come along, events transpire or time simply pass that changed things.