ashamed

[pitifulanonymus]

I am ashamed. I am ashamed of this President. Aren't you? After watching his press conference today, a sense of shame overtook me. I'm ashamed that he took to the podium today as if he emptied out a container of laughing gas. I'm ashamed of a President who has the temerity to laugh when asked a question about war. I'm ashamed of the whores of the

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shame? not exactly

[theotherjoey]

America isn't and has never been free. It isn't and has only rarely been benevolent toward the world. If you need to lie to yourself, to pretend this is all new, go ahead. But AMERICA is a country that supported terrorists as long as they attacked Communists or other far-left groups. This is a country that has forced unfair and ineffective economic changes on poor countries. This is a country in which until very recently being black or gay was enough to warrant being killed. This is a country that used chemical weapons on Vietnamese, even while their own soldiers were in the area. This is a country that sat idly by while nearly an entire people were exterminated in Rwanda.

I pity your innocence, your disillusionment. Because nothing truly fundamental has changed. America has never ever lived up to its ideals. It's true we're moving father away from them now than ever, but we never met them. We aren't losing America. We lost it a long time ago.

You're right that this isn't the greatest democracy on earth. That this isn't the nation that pioneered human rights. That this isn't the America that leads the world, that leads humanity towards a greater good. Because that is nothing but a fantasy. It has never ever existed.

So I guess I'm too jaded and fatalistic to be ashamed. Instead I'm just bitter.