America is great because America is good. If America ceases to be good, she will cease to be great.
Those words often attributed to Alexis de Tocqueville (though in truth their origin remains much murkier) cut right to core of what makes America great: her goodness.
But today, too many Americans reject the very idea that America is good.
Our schools poison students with the lie that our American experiment has been flawed from the beginning because of sins such as slavery and that, as a result, we must replace the founding values of faith and freedom with a fundamentally new and different system of values often based on Marxist ideologies.
This shift makes some sad sense when you consider that America’s goodness has always been tied to the Godliness of her citizens.
The author of the quote attributed to de Tocqueville says that he searched for America’s…
