Marc Danziger was raised in Beverly Hills but somehow didn't go into the entertainment business except as a consumer.
He's blogged since 2002 as "the Armed Liberal" at www.windsofchange.net and somehow manages to believe in American Exceptionalism and keeps trying to convince other liberals - armed and unarmed - to do so as well.
Marc Danziger
July 4, 2009…What Are We Celebrating Today, Exactly?
by Marc DanzigerI’m one of the last liberal believers in American Exceptionalism, and as I look around the political and media landscapes around me, I’m damn lonely. Not just liberals, but conservatives – like Andrew Bacevitch – seem to be shedding any idea that America is more than just another country with bigger shopping malls than most.
I don’t agree, and I think it matters that I be right and they be wrong.
It matters because in a world where the power of images and ideas is becoming stronger every day – where people defend themselves against men with guns by using cellphone cameras – we seem to be fresh out of ideas.
There’s a physical war going on out in the world with us on one side – and on the other a group allied in large part by their rejection of our beliefs as much as their rejection of our power. They are fighting us with bullets and bombs – and with YouTube videos, discussion forums, and impassioned manifestos. They believe, alright. If you ask them, they will clearly tell you that they do and tell you in what. (more…)
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