Furthermore, Bush said, partisan conflicts became deep and sharp because of discontent. “Bigotry seems emboldened. Our politics seem more vulnerable to conspiracy theories and outright fabrication.”
The former president encouraged Americans to reject bigotry and white supremacy. He said, “Bigotry or white supremacy in any form is blasphemy against the American creed,” said Bush.
America needs to recall and recover its identity
Moreover, Bush emphasized that people often judge other groups by their worst examples and judge themselves by their best intentions. They are “forgetting the image of God”, which “we should see in each other.”
We have also seen the distortion of nationalism in nativism. Americans are forgetting the dynamism that immigration is always brought to the country, according to the former President.
Bush further stated that the isolationist sentiments are coming back. Americans are forgetting that “conflict, instability, and poverty follow in the wake of protectionism.”
He also stressed that free trade helped the United States become an economic power. However, he noted that the confidence of Americans in the value of free markets and international trade is fading. He encouraged Americans to accept globalization.
