What makes a great country?

Is it volume?
Wealth?
Influence you can measure in dollars and dominance?

Or is it something quieter
something you don’t notice
until it’s missing?

[VERSE 2]

A great country doesn’t lead with noise.

It leads with example.

It doesn’t ask,
“What can we gain”
before it asks,
“What’s the right thing to do?”

[VERSE 3 ]

A great country doesn’t build
only what turns a profit.

It builds what turns into possibility
schools, roads, care, opportunity
even when no one’s getting rich off it.

It wages wars on poverty
not the poor.

[VERSE 4]

It knows the difference between strength and cruelty.

Between authority
and ego.

A great country doesn’t fear intelligence.

It doesn’t mock experts
or punish questions.

It understands that knowledge
isn’t a threat

it’s armor
for the future.

[VERSE 5]

A great country treats its workers with dignity.

It makes sure that a full day’s work
is enough to live a full life.

That getting sick
doesn’t mean going broke.

That growing old
doesn’t mean being forgotten.

[VERSE 6]

And a great country
is measured by how it treats its neighbors

The one next door.

The one who looks different.

The one who worships differently.

The one who struggles quietly
and hopes no one notices.

It understands that community
isn’t built by winning arguments
but by lifting each other
when life gets heavy.

[BRIDGE]

A great country challenges its people
not just to follow rules
but to follow by example.

To care
not because it’s rewarded
but because
it’s right.

[VERSE 7]

We used to understand this.

We knew leadership meant acting
for moral reasons
even when it wasn’t popular.
Even when it didn’t poll well.

We built big things.
We dreamed big dreams.

We reached for the stars
because we believed the future
belonged to everyone
not just the powerful.

[OUTRO]

And here’s the truth

none of this starts with governments.

Or slogans.
Or platforms.

It starts with values.

With choosing responsibility over comfort.
Compassion over profit.
Long-term good
over short-term gain.

If we want to show the world
What a great country really is

Then we don’t shout it.

We live it.

We lead by lifting
By helping our neighbors stand

Until standing together
Becomes who we are

That’s what makes a great country.

Not the claim.

the commitment.

Let us be the shining light that helps guide the world!

The Question

Mark & Wendy Cunico:  marcodaddio Creations

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