Lyric discussion by wesg01 

Cover art for Long Walk Home lyrics by Bruce Springsteen

Mikromgr is correct. Long Walk Home is a metaphor describing how far the US has moved away from it's ideals of freedom, decency, civil liberties, economic fairness, etc

@wesg01 It definitely MATTERS that we have (seemingly) DRIFTED away from our ideals. I wonder if we’ve ever truly inhabited those “ideals”…

I think now the best you can hope for is that the smart people outnumber the morons in Congress, if not in the actual nation/people, which was probably always the case.

@wesg01 It definitely MATTERS that we have (seemingly) DRIFTED away from our ideals. I wonder if we’ve ever truly inhabited those “ideals”…

I think now the best you can hope for is that the smart people outnumber the morons in Congress, if not in the actual nation/people, which was probably always the case.

Point being, people, leaders, representatives - whomever - have always used the USA’s “Charter” to whip up Nationalism (definitely NOT “patriotism”. True patriots don’t cynically use the Constitution against the very people who claim to hold it sacred, yet, don’t even come CLOSE to understanding...