How is admitting frankly that the country needs a lot of work and could do better than this being anti-American? We lost our precious American freedoms with the Patriot Act, folks. THAT is the drivel, not my calling attention to the fact that our country has fallen from its former grace. Pandora's Box has been opened, irrevocably. I respect that you think my opinions are drivel: I don't offer forth blind patriotism toward a country that is perfectly willing to screw me (and any of you) over, given half a chance--most of us are living paycheck to paycheck and know, deep down, that this country won't care if we get food and medicine when we're old. I don't need to discuss the plight of those seniors (and there are ever growing numbers of them) who can't afford both medicine and food, and who furthermore have to go out and work in their 70s and 80s. I think that's disgusting, and I don't hesitate to say that I think the system could improve. Vastly.
And we lost our freedoms in the name of anti-terrorism. You can't stop terrorism. You just can't. This "War on Terror" we've entered is BS, and I think at least half of you know it was an excuse to introduce the lovely Patriot Act. And I have to ask--Why do you flip out about Clinton saying that she will take away things for the common good, to make us safer and so forth? What was it that Bush said about the Patriot Act? That it was for our own good, to make us safer. But he likes guns, so that's cool.
Yep, I'm proud of a country that still holds misogyny tightly to its bosom. Yes, I'm saying it. I don't think you would like Hillary any more if she were a man, but I think you would be less disgusted by her if she weren't a woman. None of us is as high-minded as we would like, myself included.
You really have to stop and ask yourself about the true, not perceived, state of your country when the Brits, who don't have guns and who have psychotic police forces (who doesn't, these days?), think that we don't have freedom anymore. And that IS what they think. I, a formerly insulated American, was shocked when I went overseas to find out just how hated we are over there. How arrogant we come off to the world, because we are arrogant. We think our way is the only way to do something. That blind foolish faith in our collapsing society mirrors ancient Rome. Nothing lasts forever. We reached our pinnacle, and this BS of the Patriot Act, our collapsing economy (although Bush swears that "Our economy is strong" in his nasal Southern drawl--why does he sound that way? He grew up in the Northeast), and now people wanting to repeal the 2A is the glaring sign that only the most ostrich-like of us could possibly miss.
No. I am not proud of America. We stole every inch of it. Not the most auspicious of beginnings.
