We came for work to the US several years ago and just recently my wife and I became US citizens.
When Trump won we felt I needed to leave. I have seen already directly a country going in the same spiral of self destruction, using very similar methods of attacking the democracy that Trump and his Republican allies are using.
Now reading your posts I get new positive energy, We need to change the bad that there is in the US. We need to help and try to change those things.
The US has given so many good things to the world. We need to demonstrate that despite a percentage of us who are living in alternate and fake reality we can save ourselves and in the process save this planet. Not an easy task for sure.
Michael, you said that by the 2040’s, white people in the US would be a minority. Over the last 15 - 20 years I’ve noticed a huge change. The children in my kids Catholic school were mostly all Caucasian, when they were enrolled there. This was during the late 80’s and 90’s. There’s a big difference walking into this same school today. I have to admit, the first time I saw the student population it was startling! There were Indians, Hispanic, and African American children in the lobby, barely seeing any white kids. Growing up in the NW suburbs of Chicago, we were shielded from seeing minorities. I remember only one black family in our neighborhood. No other ethnic groups were represented. Now, I have a clearer understanding of why the white supremacy, militant groups, and the conman’s cult members are so afraid and worked up. The face of our country is changing. I want to represent the face of Americans that can grow and change with the times.
I’ve learned so much from you, Michael. You’re honest, share facts, and have great ideas for making our country a better place to live. Your thoughts are based in love and acceptance for your fellow man. You are a person we can all emulate. Thanks for being you!💜
Thank you. Here's #14, at least for me. I lived in the 3rd world for over 6 years, and the very first thing I did when I came home was, I took a great big breath of air that was cleaner than anything I had breathed in a long, long time. It was Christmas Eve, late evening and of all places, I was at the Port Authority in NYC getting on a bus. Don't laugh; it's really true. The air in Cairo is so dirty that it's like smoking a pack of cigarettes every day.
We have a really beautiful country, too. Not only should we protect it and take care of it, but we should love it. Really, really love it, and all the people and animals in it. I think the best thing we should work for is to work to replace the bad with the good. They are our greatest danger, the Trump cult and the GOP.
I love your response, Michael! I smiled and agreed all the way thru those wonderful 13 things. You are a great friend to me and even though we've never met, I know you're there with your voice and written words. It's always nice to have a friend! :)
Coming to America from ‘bike riding Denmark’ in my early twenties, and returning as an immigrant a couple of years later, was because of the amazing National Parks in the West and California. And my Norwegian grand parents who lived here for six years, (having been head hunted by the big steel giant Titan) returned to Oslo with their three ‘anchor babies’, one of them my mother, born in Detroit. Being of four nationalities, and having lived and worked in seven countries myself, the international American ‘stew’ made me feel right at home too. Now, we just have to get rid of the neo Nazis and their guns by updating our archaic electoral system and ditching 2A. America is still the beautiful! 🇺🇸
What more can I say, Michael, except that I really love you and what you say and how you say it and I gladly chip in my Social Security $$ to support your ideas and this substack and I will send your brilliant message to everyone I know and love (and even others) because you describe the America that I was brought up to believe in and now after 84 years I'm still working hard in my community to help others and keep our dream alive. Thanks...stay safe...and blessings!
I think being able to live on a university campus and learn stories from my neighbors about their countries certainly gives me many first hand reasons why I love America. The fact we have a statue that has such an audacious invitation to immigrants and a lamp to light the way in HER hand. Fifteen things to like!
I prefer to think of our nation as a melding pot not a melting pot. This definition of meld in the Collins dictionary: if several things meld, or if something melds them, they combine or blend in a pleasant or useful way. Not that right now things are often pleasant or useful. But we can aspire to this goal.
but i'd like to express that it is so uplifting to know someone like you that does not waver from his exceptional good values is always there as a person to rely on to do so much to engage good.
Thank you Michael! First - I am so glad I came in from my veggie garden after listening to your podcast and decided to become a member. And second - after reading this beautiful post I had such a shift! I have been paying too much attention to the negative message of Trump and his base and letting it overcome my thoughts at times...how can they possibly??? I say to myself. After reading your words I was able to reflect on the words of Abraham-Hicks and David Hawkins from Power vs Force and notice that my energy is just feeding their energy and in fact sure they might be stupid but really they are just BORING! And once I came to that realization I could stop feeding them and let them go and as Hawkins says one person vibrating/calibrating around 350 (acceptance) can COUNTERBALANCE 90,000 below 200 (courage). How much not fun is it to give boring people any energy? I'm up for that shift personally, it feels so much better than standing in my own negative energy and aligning with positive hope and expectation. Thank you again!!
Love this! I agree and would like to all immigrants, refugees, and undocumented people who have made it here and worked to help our country become better. If not for them, I (we) would not be here! Keep up the great work!!
I just love this list, Michael. I love that I can count on you to point out what needs fixing AND to have gratitude for what doesn't. Your optimism gives me hope, always. Sending love to you.
I am Canadian and I like America too. I even love your country, it's spirit, its dynamism. But if you truly want to improve your chances of benefitting from its inherent fought for gift of freedoms, then you must get off the bandwagon of supporting and perpetuating the intrinsic and systemic corruption of the corporate two party duopoly that insideously excludes truly progressive alternative parties who would represent the real needs, interests and longings of the majority of citizens who are disastrously unrepresented. If you are more interested or willfully blind to this reality, just to be accepted on mainstream TV, then you are committing a grave disservice to the cause of actual repair of a failing democracy.
Know what I like about America? Michael Moore
Thank you Michael for this post.
We came for work to the US several years ago and just recently my wife and I became US citizens.
When Trump won we felt I needed to leave. I have seen already directly a country going in the same spiral of self destruction, using very similar methods of attacking the democracy that Trump and his Republican allies are using.
Now reading your posts I get new positive energy, We need to change the bad that there is in the US. We need to help and try to change those things.
The US has given so many good things to the world. We need to demonstrate that despite a percentage of us who are living in alternate and fake reality we can save ourselves and in the process save this planet. Not an easy task for sure.
God help us.
Michael, you said that by the 2040’s, white people in the US would be a minority. Over the last 15 - 20 years I’ve noticed a huge change. The children in my kids Catholic school were mostly all Caucasian, when they were enrolled there. This was during the late 80’s and 90’s. There’s a big difference walking into this same school today. I have to admit, the first time I saw the student population it was startling! There were Indians, Hispanic, and African American children in the lobby, barely seeing any white kids. Growing up in the NW suburbs of Chicago, we were shielded from seeing minorities. I remember only one black family in our neighborhood. No other ethnic groups were represented. Now, I have a clearer understanding of why the white supremacy, militant groups, and the conman’s cult members are so afraid and worked up. The face of our country is changing. I want to represent the face of Americans that can grow and change with the times.
I’ve learned so much from you, Michael. You’re honest, share facts, and have great ideas for making our country a better place to live. Your thoughts are based in love and acceptance for your fellow man. You are a person we can all emulate. Thanks for being you!💜
Thank you. Here's #14, at least for me. I lived in the 3rd world for over 6 years, and the very first thing I did when I came home was, I took a great big breath of air that was cleaner than anything I had breathed in a long, long time. It was Christmas Eve, late evening and of all places, I was at the Port Authority in NYC getting on a bus. Don't laugh; it's really true. The air in Cairo is so dirty that it's like smoking a pack of cigarettes every day.
We have a really beautiful country, too. Not only should we protect it and take care of it, but we should love it. Really, really love it, and all the people and animals in it. I think the best thing we should work for is to work to replace the bad with the good. They are our greatest danger, the Trump cult and the GOP.
I love your response, Michael! I smiled and agreed all the way thru those wonderful 13 things. You are a great friend to me and even though we've never met, I know you're there with your voice and written words. It's always nice to have a friend! :)
Coming to America from ‘bike riding Denmark’ in my early twenties, and returning as an immigrant a couple of years later, was because of the amazing National Parks in the West and California. And my Norwegian grand parents who lived here for six years, (having been head hunted by the big steel giant Titan) returned to Oslo with their three ‘anchor babies’, one of them my mother, born in Detroit. Being of four nationalities, and having lived and worked in seven countries myself, the international American ‘stew’ made me feel right at home too. Now, we just have to get rid of the neo Nazis and their guns by updating our archaic electoral system and ditching 2A. America is still the beautiful! 🇺🇸
What more can I say, Michael, except that I really love you and what you say and how you say it and I gladly chip in my Social Security $$ to support your ideas and this substack and I will send your brilliant message to everyone I know and love (and even others) because you describe the America that I was brought up to believe in and now after 84 years I'm still working hard in my community to help others and keep our dream alive. Thanks...stay safe...and blessings!
Michael Moore makes 14 things to like.
I think being able to live on a university campus and learn stories from my neighbors about their countries certainly gives me many first hand reasons why I love America. The fact we have a statue that has such an audacious invitation to immigrants and a lamp to light the way in HER hand. Fifteen things to like!
I prefer to think of our nation as a melding pot not a melting pot. This definition of meld in the Collins dictionary: if several things meld, or if something melds them, they combine or blend in a pleasant or useful way. Not that right now things are often pleasant or useful. But we can aspire to this goal.
michael,
i'm not much of a writer
but i'd like to express that it is so uplifting to know someone like you that does not waver from his exceptional good values is always there as a person to rely on to do so much to engage good.
tony, atdjmo2
Thank you Michael! First - I am so glad I came in from my veggie garden after listening to your podcast and decided to become a member. And second - after reading this beautiful post I had such a shift! I have been paying too much attention to the negative message of Trump and his base and letting it overcome my thoughts at times...how can they possibly??? I say to myself. After reading your words I was able to reflect on the words of Abraham-Hicks and David Hawkins from Power vs Force and notice that my energy is just feeding their energy and in fact sure they might be stupid but really they are just BORING! And once I came to that realization I could stop feeding them and let them go and as Hawkins says one person vibrating/calibrating around 350 (acceptance) can COUNTERBALANCE 90,000 below 200 (courage). How much not fun is it to give boring people any energy? I'm up for that shift personally, it feels so much better than standing in my own negative energy and aligning with positive hope and expectation. Thank you again!!
You forgot doughnuts and ice-cream
Love this! I agree and would like to all immigrants, refugees, and undocumented people who have made it here and worked to help our country become better. If not for them, I (we) would not be here! Keep up the great work!!
I just love this list, Michael. I love that I can count on you to point out what needs fixing AND to have gratitude for what doesn't. Your optimism gives me hope, always. Sending love to you.
Thanks, Michael. I needed a reminder of the good and possible.
Okay. And so good I had to cry
I am Canadian and I like America too. I even love your country, it's spirit, its dynamism. But if you truly want to improve your chances of benefitting from its inherent fought for gift of freedoms, then you must get off the bandwagon of supporting and perpetuating the intrinsic and systemic corruption of the corporate two party duopoly that insideously excludes truly progressive alternative parties who would represent the real needs, interests and longings of the majority of citizens who are disastrously unrepresented. If you are more interested or willfully blind to this reality, just to be accepted on mainstream TV, then you are committing a grave disservice to the cause of actual repair of a failing democracy.