Have the American people become too:
* Soft and comfortable to exert themselves as a result of basking in illusions of material wealth,
* Focused on trivialities, or
* Stupid and/or lazy
to defend their heritage and meet the challenge expressed by Benjamin Franklin when he emerged from the Constitutional Convention declaring that the delegates were creating for the new nation "a republic if you can keep it"?
This just released poll indicates that Americans still have the right instincts and ideas.
That, however, does not answer the question of whether we still have the ability and will "to keep it." That very big and essential question is posed better than it is above and explored by the always erudite and unfailingly perceptive Thomas Sowell in this essay, the reading and careful consideration of which is strongly recommended.
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