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Though modest, this seems like a step in the right direction.  There ought to be a way to define at some level what it means to be an American.  If we could share a common understanding of certain fundamental principles of American citizenship that the left and right and middle could roughly agree on, we might be able to preserve what it means to be a nation.  This is, I know, hopelessly idealistic and yet absolutely essential to our national survival.