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Failure of Imagination

Failure of Imagination
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo speaks to the press prior to meeting with the Kuwaiti Foreign Minister, at the State Department in Washington on Nov. 24, 2020. Saul Loeb/Pool/AFP via Getty Images
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We are a vast country, but too many of us have a limited understanding of the rest of the world. We have the right to vote and freedom of speech. We can move around our country as we wish, and we with can start a company or quit a job as we desire. We get to determine who our friends are and where we spend our time. With such great freedom comes a failure of imagination. We forget that our system is special, unique, so we believe that every other country is like ours.

Jackie Gingrich Cushman
Jackie Gingrich Cushman
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Jackie Gingrich Cushman is a nationally syndicated columnist, an award-winning author, and founder of the Learning Makes a Difference Foundation.
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