In a stream of consciousness

I made grammatical and spelling errors.

Why is it that whenever the president or his vice say or report anything we blindly accept? “We

won’t negotiate with terrorists.” “There are no more women who are detained in Iraqi prisons.” “The president was in the National Guard and Kerry received shadowy purple hearts.” “There was nothing anyone could do to prevent 9/11.” “Unless you vote for Bush you’re not a ‘patriot’.” As soon as statements are made we bat our eyelashes and let forth this doe eyed admiration for those who run our country. What happened to us? When did we lose the path of cynicism that we used to have? The government would say something and there would be mob of neigh-sayers baying for blood on the news media, calling the comments ludicrous, waving fact-sheets for checking. Now we are told something and we sit and stare, like zombies. What is the reason for it? How can anyone living in this country just be content with what has been happening over the past few years? We’re not doing well. The economy sucks; we’re at war because of Weapons of Mass Destruction, terrorism, or Saddam (For one of those reasons, anyway. It’s hard to tell any more, minds have been changed so many times); we’re living in constant fear that some new catastrophe will kill us all; the Patriot Act hounds and watches our every move (movie rentals, book buying, website content, etc.) to ensure that we are not a threat to our government or neighbors; etc. Yet, most importantly, this country has become the bane of the world – not the first time this has happened, but still. There are more countries that hate us now than hated Britain during the Colonial period of their history, and they revolted and killed thousands of British for “freedom”. We have overstepped our boundaries and into other people’s business. We claim to have the answer, yet can’t even resolve our problems at home.

There is a far larger separation between political spectrums than there has been in over fifteen

years. Why? What’s the point? There is no reason why we should be hated or hate for the reasons we have chosen. Republicans hate Democrats and vice versa. It has become this polarized playground aesthetic of pointless bickering. The fanatic portions of each party taking especially strong stances (to say it simply) and acting as if their position is that of the rest of the party and the country as a whole. Well, uh, no. Sorry. Not so much. Far more personally to me, the government has chosen scapegoats in Middle Easterners. They make it seem like all of them are to blame for the problems this country has and is facing. How? How can a group of people, a vast majority of whom live lives just as you or I, be put in this position? Why is it that so many people can be condemning of them without remembering history? The Crusades of the Middle Ages were just as bad as the Crusades going on right now. Fanatical Christians were to blame then, they attacked because they didn’t want to share the Holy Land with Muslims. Now, Fundamentalist Muslims are doing the same. They want the Holy Land to themselves, but they can’t so they blow up buildings. They see their way of life disrupted by, what in their eyes seems to be, the United States and want it to stop.

And let’s tirade about “actionable steps”, shall we. More scapegoating? Yeah. The current Power

Structure [sic] has decided that it is not their fault that September 11th happened, it was the democrats who were in office. It was because they didn’t lay out a plan to prevent something that was to happen almost a year after they left. Ohhh! I had no idea that those in Power essentially rode on coattails. They’re not supposed to construct new ideas or reform plans, they’re supposed to use whatever the last guy had. Then why do they hate Clinton and his posse so much if they were just going to use what he had laid out for them? When you’re little your mom lays out your cloths for you on your bed; tells you what to wear to look nice. Always a clean, nice set of cloths. Now, when you’re mom stops doing that, thinking that you’re big enough to dress yourself, you can blame her for not putting out cloths for you. You are old enough. She doesn’t have to hold your hand when you cross the street any more, or when you’re grocery shopping so that you don’t run off and eat grapes from the produce stand. That is how the current Power Structure is set up, the little kid who blames his mom for the fact that he’s not used to doing it for himself. They’re pitiful, ignorant, and arrogant without having a singular understand of how to actually do the job they have been elected or appointed into.