I finished reading (and agreeing a lot) with J.Kb’s post on the idiotic comments of Michael Moore and I went looking for a funeral procession for comparison.
The funeral for Ronald Reagan
Dear Fat Slob Moore, even though your Lefty friends have been shoving in our faces how old and rich is the Iranian culture (actually it is the Persian culture that has nothing to do with the current crop of inhabitants of the area) we treat or State Funerals with pomp and circumstance. There were thousands upon thousands freely attending the funeral, not being forced to attend or lose their jobs or meal coupons or even freedom. And we sure as hell do not treat the funeral of a beloved person as a mosh pit during a metal concert after flying the body in coach and parading it through the streets in the back of a pick up truck.
So much for “ancient” culture.
I was living in DC when Reagan’s funeral took place. To this day, I regret not taking time off to view the procession.
And, you are correct. The culture thing is such a BS line. Please have one of those leftists tell that again that white europeans have no culture. Why do they ignore classical music (Brahms, Mozart, etc…) literature (Shakespeare, Milton, Bosch, Homer, etc…), art (Manet, Monet, Rembrandt, Michelangelo, etc…), philosophy (Plato/Aristotle/Socrates, Kierkegaard, Yung, etc…), science (list too long to ever start)
But… No. According to the leftists, none of that counts, and some 1500 year old political system is the definitive example of culture. (Sorry. I refuse to refer to islam as a religion any more.)
The United States is one of the oldest governments in the world. Our culture is as old as the Iranians’ — because we have our roots in Greece and Israel. We may not have buildings as old as theirs, but we’ve never forced schoolkids to run into minefields.