Why is America so Dumb?
OK, I am thinking slightly more clearly now than when I was this morning. My first reaction was to look up information about how to immigrate to Canada then I dabbled for a moment with the idea of suicide but finally decided on starting a blog... Mostly because I didn't want to go through the trouble of moving again and I really don't like the sight of blood. So here I am, a pissed off boy from Ohio trying to focus my blinding rage into text.
How is it that we live in a country with more resources for information than any other country in the world, a country with freedom of speech and press, a country where any one who wants it has access to newspapers, books, the news, and the internet. We even have access to other countries sources of information. It is important for me to mention that I love America, but more so in theory than in practice. What I hate is the majority of it's citizenry. America is a country of the willfully ignorant, a country where people care more about a president who will show off than about a president who tells the truth. A lie that has cost thousands upon thousands of deaths, mostly of innocent civilians who are being "liberated" of their need to breath, move, and generally have that rosy glow in their cheeks.
They say the buck stops with the president and while I would never say that the President and his staff of evil, lying, bigots don't share a huge percentage of the responsibility for the mess our country currently finds itself in the buck doesn't stop with them, it stops with you (you assumes that you are a US citizen who has not been legally disenfranchised of the right to vote). I spent 6 hours in the rain yesterday walking door to door to make sure that people got out to vote and that noone was stopped at the polls. It is every person's responsibility to know the facts not just what facts you want to know, you can't just watch fox news and listen to AM radio. The lives of over 1000 US troops are in my hands in your hands and in the hands of anyone who didn't vote Gore in 2000.
How is it that we live in a country with more resources for information than any other country in the world, a country with freedom of speech and press, a country where any one who wants it has access to newspapers, books, the news, and the internet. We even have access to other countries sources of information. It is important for me to mention that I love America, but more so in theory than in practice. What I hate is the majority of it's citizenry. America is a country of the willfully ignorant, a country where people care more about a president who will show off than about a president who tells the truth. A lie that has cost thousands upon thousands of deaths, mostly of innocent civilians who are being "liberated" of their need to breath, move, and generally have that rosy glow in their cheeks.
They say the buck stops with the president and while I would never say that the President and his staff of evil, lying, bigots don't share a huge percentage of the responsibility for the mess our country currently finds itself in the buck doesn't stop with them, it stops with you (you assumes that you are a US citizen who has not been legally disenfranchised of the right to vote). I spent 6 hours in the rain yesterday walking door to door to make sure that people got out to vote and that noone was stopped at the polls. It is every person's responsibility to know the facts not just what facts you want to know, you can't just watch fox news and listen to AM radio. The lives of over 1000 US troops are in my hands in your hands and in the hands of anyone who didn't vote Gore in 2000.
It is easy to point fingers but in 2000 there was no way to tell the kinds of evil that this man could possibly visit on this country. As pissed as I was if I had a problem with the electoral college the time to take up that problem is before elections are held. Not after you are pissed about the desicion. And no matter how much corruption there was at the polls, even if Kerry had won I have lost my faith in the American people. And that hurts.
So I am going to try to write about how pissed I am as often as possible so as not to forget about it. I don't care if there is nothing to do about it now. The American people have hung themselves and I am not really happy about it now.
P.S. I hate everyone.
posted by Nathan @ 11:43 AM
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