What is the country you feel has been lost or stolen from you.

[Just Me]

The country I lost is the one where everyone had a chance to succeed as everyone was protected from predatory human sharks.

The country I lost is the one where human potential and ingenuity and uniqueness was embraced and catapulted.

The country I lost is the one that sought to empower the weakest among us in order to strengthen our nation.

The country I lost is the country that embraced a variety of ideas and views rather than oppress and insult those whose perceptions vary from anyone's ideology.

The country I lost had "Americanism" at its core; rather than the anti-Americanism marketed by the right-wing insane machine, dividing its own people,....FOR WHAT?

The country I lost is the one that evolved with GREAT SACRIFICE AND COMMITMENT towards a healthy "democracy" for ALL PEOPLE,...and that country is being reversed a full century by those who sacrificed NOTHING for the advancement of this country.

[valerief]

1. The country I lost

Is the one that didn't shoot at me.

[Just Me]

3. ????

Shoot at you? :( :shrug:

[valerief]

8. Picture yourself as one of those victims trying to venture along

the highway. Guards with guns stopped them and made them turn back. What was the implied threat? They'd shoot at them if they tried to leave.

[Occulus]

2. I was born in 1975.

I never knew the nation you speak of. With the exception of the Eight Years' Hope, I never had a CHANCE to see that country.

WTF are you talking about? Where was this? Which nation, again? I want to go there. It sounds like a nice place.

Wish I lived there. /NO SARCASM

[Just Me]

4. Oh.

Okay. You've lost nothing, apparently.

[Arkham House]

5. The Country I Lost...

...dreamed big dreams, and brought those dreams to fruition. We wanted to end elderly poverty snd hunger, to make civil rights a reality, to go to the Moon, to give everyone a chance. To be a *nation*--and not a "market". To have a republic with citizens, and not consumers. The country I lost had a sense of optimism, of purpose, of elasticity that we've let be destroyed these past 25 years. The country I lost had real reporters, and not a parasitic media class who resemble nothing so much as Louis IV's courtiers. We made mistakes...but we kept the faith, and accomplished great things, every one of which has either been lost, or is threatened to be lost. And I pray we can that country back someday.

[Just Me]

6. Hopefully,...

,...the inspirations of our people can revive a lost country.

:hug:

[salib]

7. The country I lost

Was the one that, even as a child, I dared not approach, dared not talk about, dared not disturb. It was like a small bird on the brink of flight.

Reminds me of "While my Guitar Gently Weeps"

I was perverted, I was converted. Not because I wanted it. Not because I needed something.

It was because a feared losing what I felt was there.

I had no way of knowing. It was not something to lose. It was ALWAYS something that must be strived for.