"Make America Great Again" When I first heard the slogan, I was struck by it's simplicity. It was so to-the-point. Make my country great again . I didn't get to witness the "greatness" of America from within - I had only watched it from afar, from a steady diet of Hollywood movies, initially the Western "Dirty Harry" movies that I enjoyed as a kid, and later movies like Rocky, Easy Rider, Midnight Cowboy and The Graduate. Of course everything looked great on silver screen, and if America had problems, Americans seemed well equipped to handle them. America was the utopia, and like many others around the world, I wanted to come to this land of opportunity. I was particularly attracted to the American spirit. Rugged individualism, uncomplaining people who believed in principles, people who took responsibility for their actions, people who bootstrapped themselves out of difficulties. I believed that America was the land of plenty, and one could make