He quotes JFK:
"Ask not what your country can do for you. Ask what you can do for your country."He says that's a lie. I'm not sure how a statement that's a call to action can possibly be a lie, but that's his belief.
He complains that other citizens aren't doing what JFK wanted us to do ("do for your country"), so him doing that is just allowing others to do whatever else they do.
He spends most of time complaining that the country doesn't do anything for him.
Isn't that what JFK said not to do? Seems like he expects the country to do ... something ... for him specifically, which is literally asking what the country can do for him. He even admits that's what he's saying at the end of the article.
He pretends to have lived by JFK's "lie", yet he's disappointed that somehow the country still owes him something.
His entire pity party can be encapsulated in his line: "...I’m not sure I ever understood America to begin with."
He's complaining something isn't living up to his idea of what it should do without ever being taught -- or learning on his own -- what that something was designed to do. Imagine buying a car and complaining it doesn't fly. Or that your new washing machine doesn't clean the house.
I think his expectations were shaped based on a Liberal education system that preaches dependence on government to solve all our problems. After all, that's how most politicians get elected -- promising to make our lives better, give us stuff or solve hard problems.
I'm only a decade older than him, but in my life, I was taught independence, working to achieve what i wanted, and how my individual successes make the country better if for no other reason than no one else is being forced to meet my needs.
I would counter his BS with one observation: the country he is disappointed in has evolved into what it is precisely because our governments (Federal, state & local) have attempted to enact laws and programs to give us the things government is not supposed to be doing. That shortsightedness has caused people to become dependent on the government, and government to become so massive it's being crushed under its own weight.
He doesn't understand that he's had a successful career as an actor, comedian and writer. None of that produces anything anyone needs, yet he's not been forced into a life of poverty in order to do what he enjoys/loves.
Maybe we need to cut back on government grants for arts and entertainment so these entitled brats can contribute something useful to the country. That might be more fulfilling than a life spent in fantasy land.
