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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsI'm sick, not proud of my "Country" today at ALL
So much...soooo much...can't even begin to unpack it all in one post.
You know, I stopped doing fireworks and enjoying them a few years ago, even as Obama was in office. It wasn't about him, just the feeling that I could not support the whitewashing of so much history...some of which directly affected me. If my great-grandfather had not survived the Trail of Tears, I wouldn't be here.
But the actions overseas, racial disparity and rampant poverty and elitism...
I couldn't get behind the whole "...and I'm Proud the be an American" song for the billionth time playing to fireworks
(fireworks that also did horrible damage to our local ecosystems)
Today - well I have not been plugged in for obvious reasons, the news of the "two minutes of hatefest" at Rushmore, COVID going crazy EVERYWHERE - as I watch my small town get swarmed by tourists, and continued travesty and injustice on the #BLM front...
So what else do I do? crack a beer at 2pm and try not to cry. Hell, there's people at the beach who are probably more shitfaced than I could be. And none of them are distancing or masked, and many of them are probably Proud Americans, wearing their red, white & blue...
I just can't.
dchill
(38,315 posts)John Fante
(3,479 posts)to fix the terrible flaws this country has... so that I do not feel shame any more.
FirstLight
(13,352 posts)BUt sometimes I just lack the energy to fight...it just hurts, all over. (maybe that's my age too///feeling like I just dont have any more OOmph left for any of this bullshit)
dameatball
(7,380 posts)reaction to some sappy song and some fireworks. Thank you for the perspective.
AmericanVictimized
(20 posts)Severely down about The Six Grandfathers being desecrated last night.
FirstLight
(13,352 posts)I feel it too
Tumbulu
(6,267 posts)And unable to shake it so far.
I have so much to do, but cannot do any of it. Just so glum.
This catastrophe that we are forced to experience by people who hate liberals so much more than anything else is too heavy at times. This is such a time.
FirstLight
(13,352 posts)Been struggling with it on a low level for some time now...
Today I am trying to enjoy my yard and beauty, and I also cracked a beer at 3pm
fuckit, it's a saturday
Initech
(99,909 posts)I really hope things are better for the next 4th of July.