Waterston on America by Lawrence Auster

"The actor Sam Waterston, whose parts have ranged from the hysterically whiny and self-righteous liberal New York Times columnist Sidney Schanberg in The Killing Fields, to the hysterically whiny and self-righteous liberal Manhattan D.A. Jack McCoy in Law and Order, delivered a speech to new American citizens at a swearing-in ceremony this past July 4th at Monticello. Waterston's vision of the country that those new citizens are joining is every bit as subversive as you would expect, though Waterston would of course see it as very patriotic. Yes, the speech is patriotic, but it is patriotic only to the universal liberal idea of America, not to America the actual country, political system, and people. Waterston says, among other obnoxious things, that America is 'a contract among individuals around an idea.' Wow. For Sam W., America is even less substantive than, say, a business corporation. At least a business corporation has a legal personality. But, as Waterston sees it, America doesn't even have a legal personality, let alone a cultural personality or a national identity. It's just a contract to believe in an idea.

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