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“America is an idea — an idea is stronger than any army, bigger than any ocean, more powerful than any dictator,” President Biden says in an Oval Office address.
“We’ve never fully lived up to this sacred idea, but we’ve never walked away from it either. And I do not believe the… pic.twitter.com/04v1BLVF3i
— CBS News (@CBSNews) July 25, 2024
I don’t know what “America is an idea” means. I’ve never understood the core concept of that phrase.
America is not an idea, it’s a territory with borders and people who live within those borders who are supposed to be represented by a government.
Claiming that America is both “an idea” and “ruled by the people” is contradictory, and even more confusing.
How can people rule an idea?
Joe Biden addressed the nation Wednesday to explain his historic decision to withdraw from the presidential race, delivering a reflective and hopeful message about the need to begin a new chapter in America’s story.
“I believe my record as president, my leadership in the world, my vision for America’s future all merited a second term, but nothing – nothing – can come in the way of saving our democracy. That includes personal ambition,” Biden said in the Oval Office.
“So I’ve decided the best way forward is to pass the torch to a new generation. It’s the best way to unite our nation. You know, there is a time and a place for long years of experience in public life. There’s also a time and a place for new voices, fresh voices – yes, younger voices. And that time and place is now.”
“America is an idea, an idea stronger than any army, bigger than any ocean, more powerful than any dictator or tyrant. It’s the most powerful idea in the history of the world,” Biden said. “That idea is that we hold these truths to be self-evident. We’re all created equal, endowed by our creator with certain inalienable rights: life, liberty, pursuit of happiness. We’ve never fully lived up to it, to this sacred idea, but we’ve never walked away from it either, and I do not believe the American people will walk away from it now.”
Well, I don’t know if that is an “idea” or just political rhetoric.
Regardless, it was a statement made by a man, Thomas Jefferson, who owned more than 700 black slaves.
So… idk.
It was a message that echoed Biden’s campaign slogan in 2020, which framed the election against Trump as a “battle for the soul of the nation”. That battle remains ongoing, Biden said, and it will now be up to the American people to decide how it will end.
“The great thing about America is here, kings and dictators do not rule. The people do,” Biden said. “History is in your hands. The power is in your hands. The idea of America lies in your hands. You just have to keep faith – keep the faith – and remember who we are.”
“The people” being a collective entity with a will actually is “an idea,” and one that is largely useless for any sort of political purpose.
In any of the systems that the US government labels “autocracy,” the average person is more contented and free than he is in any country the US labels “a democracy.”
Most of “the people” probably would not be willing to sacrifice personal autonomy, freedom, and opportunity in order to be part of “an idea,” if they understood that these were the terms.
That is why democracy governments are so fixated on keeping people in a state of confusion, if not outright delirium.
(By the way: that looks like him. I know people are saying he may have already died, and I agree that’s possible, and this could easily be an AI speech. On the other side of that, though, there is no real evidence that he’s dead.)
