I love my country and appreciate my culture. In fact, America's melting pot is just lovely to me because I get to experience such a breadth of the world and people from within it. And don't get me started on breathy jazz in a repurposed southern home, eating pecan pie with the smell of magnolias and the chirping of the cicadas.

Just because I can recognize negatives and discuss the topic from an anthropological perspective doesn't mean I'm "demotivated"?

Though I do wish we brought back American Exceptionalism in the sense of building ornate mega structures and taking on huge infrastructure projects. Not that it's totally dead, but building wide and a resurrection of fiscal conservativism has severely crippled it.