{"id":13443,"date":"2022-04-20T16:35:00","date_gmt":"2022-04-20T20:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jasetaro.com\/blog\/?p=13443"},"modified":"2022-05-17T16:40:29","modified_gmt":"2022-05-17T20:40:29","slug":"americanism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jasetaro.com\/blog\/2022\/04\/20\/americanism\/","title":{"rendered":"Americanism"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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I\u2019ve been thinking about this quote from our 26th President Teddy Roosevelt a lot recently:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAmericanism means the virtues of courage, honor, justice, truth, sincerity, and hardihood\u2014the virtues that made America. The things that will destroy America are prosperity-at-any-price, peace-at-any-price, safety-first instead of duty-first, the love of soft living and the get-rich-quick theory of life.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

It seems to capture our current political & cultural divides rather eloquently\u2026 while conservatives value & respect traditional American virtues much of the modern left views those same customs, habits, culture, and thinking as archaic impediments to their agenda. We must become more involved in our communities & making sure voices our heard at the local, state & federal level\u2026 In short, we must do politics in a way that preserves our ability to live out our values. Because if we don\u2019t, we\u2019re going to wake up one morning and discover that the freedoms we so cherish are gone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I\u2019ve been thinking about this quote from our 26th President Teddy Roosevelt a lot recently: \u201cAmericanism means the virtues of courage, honor, justice, truth, sincerity, and hardihood\u2014the virtues that made America. The things that will destroy America are prosperity-at-any-price, peace-at-any-price, safety-first instead of duty-first, the love of soft living and the get-rich-quick theory of life.\u201d […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[8,1390,7],"tags":[1401,522,1400],"class_list":{"0":"post-13443","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-culture","7":"category-history","8":"category-politics","9":"tag-americanism","10":"tag-liberty","11":"tag-theodore-roosevelt","12":"entry","13":"has-post-thumbnail"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pfpI7-3uP","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":4189,"url":"https:\/\/www.jasetaro.com\/blog\/2011\/08\/14\/sunday-afternoon-musical-interlude-josh-thompson-way-out-here\/","url_meta":{"origin":13443,"position":0},"title":"Sunday Afternoon Musical Interlude: Josh Thompson – Way Out Here","author":"Jeff","date":"August 14, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"I mentioned on twitter not long ago that if you didn't understand the philosophical meaning of this song then we have nothing to talk about... 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