We will all value different ideals.
Case in point I think the shining city on the hill narrative is bullshit and partially why certain groups get raked continually and I'm not afraid to say it.
Doesn't really bother me if you believe it as an ideal tho until it affects my life.
The past few days when I've been at that window upstairs, I've thought a bit of the shining "city upon a hill." The phrase comes from John Winthrop, who wrote it to describe the America he imagined. What he imagined was important, because he was an early Pilgrim - an early "Freedom Man." He journeyed here on what today we'd call a little wooden boat, and, like the other pilgrims, he was looking for a home that would be free.
I've spoken of the shining city all my political life, but I don't know if I ever quite communicated what I saw when I said it. But in my mind, it was a tall proud city built on rocks stronger than oceans, wind swept, God blessed, and teeming with people of all kinds living in harmony and peace - a city with free ports that hummed with commerce and creativity, and if there had to be city walls, the walls had doors, and the doors were open to anyone with the will and the heart to get here.
That's how I saw it, and see it still. How Stands the City?
Maybe you should read Reagan's farewell address and point out the bullshit parts for us.
https://www.nytimes.com/1989/01/12/...an-s-farewell-address-to-american-people.html
You talk about ideals affecting your life but are content to sit back and wait on some miracle to occur while these progressive ideals are most certainly affecting your life.