i think the united states is going through a similar challenge, that our conception of who ors a nation has a half full and half empty. And many people have decided to only choose one. Is there something really disturbing about the sight of a nation that his decided to only focus on the bad things it did? I'm actually sympathetic in some ways, to him, despite the fact my own familiar mith making is on the other side. i think nations do, at some level need to have some self esteem. If they don't, the nation doesn't hold together. You can argue you now, we are not debating whether we should extend universal health care but maybe we're not debating