Americas Greatest Days

This morning I read Winston Churchill’s speech, “Never Give In” given to his school, Harrow, in 1941 when Great Britain bravely stood alone against the Nazis.  I read it because these are rapidly becoming America’s greatest days.  Our country is in a great war whose aim is to pacify its citizens with free bread, and entertainment sucking the poison of individual freedom from the breast of an oppressive government.  A great amnesia is sweeping America where we are drunk on free wine instead of being invigorated by freedom.  Yes, this is in many ways our finest hour where great men and women are called to rise up.  Today we are mired in a lowly political process.  There is little to be admired in either party and much to be rejected as both seek to destroy the other thereby destroying half of us.  What could be called good that would seek to destroy half of all American citizens?  No political party deserves our allegiance whose goal is to marginalize half of its citizens.  Yes, we are drunk, staggering under the brew of hatred on tap from every news outlet.  But greatness is never more needed than when our world is drunkenly crumbling under a government unfit to govern.   Yes, it is America’s finest hour as it calls us all to a great accounting, to be The United States, to cast our vote in the ballot booth and then, allow our greater selves to rise up, disregard politics and walk across the street and love our neighbor as ourself.  It is America’s greatest days, will there be found Americans to live them?