I don't understand my country anymore. A country built by immigrants that now hates immigrants. A country that claims to respect the individual freedoms of all its citizens but truly only respects the rights of those citizens who can pay for them. A country that believes in liberty, freedom of speech and freedom of religion but only as long as it is the RIGHT kind of speech or the RIGHT kind of religion. A country that spends trillions of dollars to send young men and women to fight and die in stupid, useless wars yet can't find the cash to properly care for those young men and women when they come home crippled and maimed. A country that says, "Hey. You're poor? FUCK you! A country built on compromise and intellectual ideas that now seems to believe that compromise is a dirty word and that ideas and intelligence are some sort of cancer. A country that will will get all gussied up this coming weekend to celebrate the independence of a nation that no longer knows who or what it is.
That makes me sad.
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