Can we all agree on Scandinavia?

Once America had unity although it was kind of sappy and hokey. Remember singing “This Land is Your Land” with Peter, Paul, and Mary in the early 1970s? The abolishment of the Draft in 1971?
Remember folk music like Sourwood Mountain?

Remember when holding hands singing Kum Ba-Yah was a reality? And remember the Bicentennial America when children sang “Free to be you and me” by Margaret Julia “Marlo” Thomas—?

Oddly enough, we were even more patriotic back then. And we believed that we were the greatest nation on Earth.

Some of this probably exists in Canada but I don’t see as much ‘national pride’ in Canada—not as patriotic I guess—though I think they have something we don’t have in the States.

When this polarization in America gets too much, I look at images of Scandinavia—many of the Scandinavian countries have great national spirit and pride. even there I think much of what it is is getting lost—can’t we ALL strive to be more like THAT—or what we THOUGHT we were becoming as a nation in the early 1970s?

I don’t mean crawling back into the past—I mean becoming what we hoped we WERE becoming back then.

Can we all agree also that Scandinavia has something we have lost as Americans? A genuine humanitarianism coupled with a national spirit?