Americas Greatest Strength

[Louis VI the Fat]

It's greatest strength is a totally ruthless support for freedom of speech. Few other places in the world allow for the same level of protection of minority opinions as the US. Freedom of speech is the bastion of liberty, and thus its preservation from any and all encroachments is very important.

I would not disagree with the above. But I think it is subordinate to America's propensity to re-invent itself.

Free-flowing information, the exchange of ideas, competition of ideas, this leads to an easily adaptable society. Which, I must agree with Strike, I think is America's outstanding quality.


(As an aside, this is why I consider W. Bush I the least patriotic administration in (modern) American history. Their flagpins, their call for uncritical, 'patriotic' devotion to set ideas, for toeing the line, immediately had a debilitating effect on America's capacity for a free competition of ideas, with disastrous effect)