Man I love my country! I love my state and county and small town that I live in. I really do love everything that my country stands for on paper. In our constitution. In our "Bill of Rights". The way the founders figured out how to set up a three way power sharing government (Executive, Judicial and Legislative) that would keep aspiring wanna be kings and thugs from taking us down a dark road to fascism.
I also love the fairness that I was taught both in bible school and public school to treat others as I would want to be treated. The Golden Rule! I have always been very proud to be an American citizen knowing that deep in our upbringing we were all taught to respect all peoples no matter what.
So what’s happened to my country?
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I have been watching and paying very close attention to all the Fox, GOP and Bush neo-con blabbering for quite some time. The Bill O’Rielly, Sean Hannity and others who just don’t get it at all. That some great Americans believe in the Golden Rule. Meaning we ain’t no better than anybody else. Meaning we don’t have the license to go into a country and kill a half million of their citizens on a lie and then continue to change the reasoning for going to war until we’ve come full circle back to Al-Kaida whom we left to grow and go forth when we left Afghanistan to remove Saddam from his oil fields...er I mean rule.
So if I’m a good little American citizen and do what the Bush administration wants me to do then I must begin to be very selfish and adopt the thinking that as a U.S. citizen I have more rights and my country can tell all other country’s how and when to tow the line. We
Americans have God and Jesus on our side.......and no other religion is right.....no other belief is correct. We....know.....best for everyone in the world.
It’s just not how I was brought us George.....sorry Dick......but I can’t buy it. I’m a human being living on planet Earth. I share the air, sun and moon with all inhabitants. And we all have the same rights for life, liberty and pursuit of happiness. As an American I do not have more or less rights but I share the same. As an American I will defend my land from any asshole who wants to take it down but as an American citizen I do not have the right to use other people and their land to keep me safe. That whole "fight them over there so we don’t fight them here"sounds very selfish to me. I get it...it’s easy to say but very hard to digest when you’ve been fed the Golden Rule. I have always kept the Golden Rule very close to me and lived it. Now my country has tossed it out in place of fear. Not all of us.....but the neo-cons and chicken hawks who take the easy road to hell have done so.
I love being an American citizen and I will do everything in my power to help my country get its true meaning back. We once held a reputation around the world. We’ve lost that great reputation of fairness. We must get it back.
The only thing to fear......is fear itself! If we are so righteous as those wingnuts believe we are then we shouldn’t fear anything at all. We have the almighty on our side don’t we? Are we protected by the hand of God all Mighty. Certainly he would not allow the bad guys to destroy such a great land and country as the U.S.A.! After all...we are the chosen.............ask GWB
I proud to be a liberal progressive Democrat. I can go to my grave with my thoughts of fairness and love of all mankind and not just my stockbroker. And I really am proud of the Daily Kos site for giving all of us a voice. I feel sorry for all the Fox watchers.....they're losing theirs.