decline. it wasn't just a malaise during jimmy carter. there was the sensibility of hope with reagan that things could change, and then it just tumbled right back down when the establishment got its mitts on the country again. so americans, you know, we love the underdog, we love to try, we love the nature of what's possible, but we also in the very end we have responsibilities to people other than ourselves, to our children, to our neighbors, to our community. that, i think, is a remarkable uniqueness about americans, about the choices we make. and when they appeal to us, it's to appeal to us based on our own personal greed. they think it's all just about the individual. for them it is the, but for us it really is about people other than ourselves. by jumping off the boats onto normandy beach. the things we do to save strangers for this country is extraordinary. so in the end, what we really do want, we know that saving the nation is imperative, this nation. you know, because it saves the