[thecavemaster]

I completely forgot that we Americans built the statue of liberty.

It was a gift from France, which you know, but the enscription speaks to a largeness of spirit, a certain way or principle. We seek to call ourselves "a city on a hill" for the nations, "a beacon of hope and freedom shining into the dark places of the globe" (Frenchmen didn't say that). I forgot that "patriotism" doesn't council these prinicples, that "America first" has come to mean something utterly foreign and different.