What we need is honest people.
Honest politicians to write effective, rational laws.
Honest business owners who aren’t lying f*cking savages.
Honest workers who aren’t scheming for free shiite.
Honest consumers who aren’t looking for a golden payout fraud.
Honest lawyers that can fairly represent issues before honest judges without political axes to grind.
What happened to a handshake contract?
Giving “My Word” to do something?
We become what we live,
America was a land built for a moral and religious people, wholly inappropriate for any other kind.
Unknown in today's world outside of certain surviving Anglo-Saxon parts of America. We conservatives are greatly handicapped by these beliefs we grew up with when we expect other cultures to adhere to them.
I grew up in that world and found that at least some of it carried over into the (majority white) corporate offices where I spent the first two decades of my working career. Moving into small business ownership and having to do business with other cultures to whom "My Word" was just so much noise was a major shock to my belief system.
Once the USA globalized, it had to start playing the game by world rules: Never give a sucker an even break.
Its gradual disappearance is what has left many of us feeling like strangers in a strange land; the more so with each passing year.
Absent its return, the nation may amorally stumble along for a time, but likely never again as the beacon of hope that once shone brightly, warts and all, to the rest of the world.
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