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  • Former president George W. Bush: In recent decades public confidence in our institutions has declined.

  • Our governing class has often been paralyzed in the face of obvious and pressing needs.

  • The American dream of upward mobility seems out of reach for some who feel left behind in a changing economy.

  • Discontent deepened and sharpened partisan conflicts.

  • Bigotry seems emboldened. Our politics seems more vulnerable to conspiracy theories and outright fabrication.

  • We've seen nationalism distorted into nativism.

  • Forgotten the dynamism that immigration is always brought to America.

  • We see a fading confidence in the value of free markets and international trade,

  • forgetting that conflict, instability and poverty follow in the wake of protectionism.

  • We've seen the return of isolationist sentiments,

  • forgetting that American security is directly threatened by the chaos and despair of distant places,

  • where threats such as terrorism, infectious disease, criminal gangs and drug trafficking tend to emerge.

  • In all these ways we need to recall and recover our own identity.

  • Our identity as a nation, unlike many other nations, is not determined by geography or ethnicity, by soil or blood.

  • Being an American involves the embrace of high ideals and civic responsibility.

  • We become the heirs of Thomas Jefferson by accepting the ideal of human dignity found in the Declaration of Independence.

  • We become the heirs of James Madison by understanding the genius and values of the U.S. Constitution.

  • We become the heirs of Martin Luther King Jr.

  • by recognizing one another not by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.

  • This means that people of every race, religion, ethnicity can be fully and equally American

  • It means that bigotry or white supremacy in any form is blasphemy against the American creed.

Former president George W. Bush: In recent decades public confidence in our institutions has declined.

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George W. Bush's ardent speech on democracy, in 3 minutes

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    陳姿君 に公開 2024 年 01 月 04 日
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