Is America Great, Yet? I've Been Asking Around.

The Beautiful Mess by John Pavlovitz Podcast · Feb 21, 2025 · 4m

Are we great yet, America?

I've been looking around lately and wondering if we're here; if this is the supposed greatness he was talking about, the kind his supporters were forecasting, the kind their bumpers and t-shirts refer to. It hasn't seemed particularly great to me lately, but hey, I've been wrong before, so I started asking around:

I asked a grandmother in Texas, terrified that her social security and Medicare may soon be evaporating. She wasn’t convinced.

I asked a National Park ranger, unceremoniously terminated from his dream job stewarding our natural resources. He appeared…