I am a patriot to the core, so please don't give me any of the "questioning your leader means youre not patriotic" crap. It was through fundamentally challenging the powers that be that our great country was born, after all.
So, at a time when we most need to yell, scream, step up, revolt, do anything to change our current course, we all just seem to grudgingly accept the status quo. Bush keeps killing our heroes because he can't admit that he made a mistake (stay the course), and we mourn for them but accept it. A disaster destroys the lives of so many poor, mostly non-voting or democratic people in Louisiana, and we mourn for them but accept it. We wanted to impeach Clinton at one point for getting a hummer for God's Sake, and look what we have accepted over these past years. Am I the only one who wants to scream every time he hears the news? And to add insult to injury, the person who has been steering this ship isn't even the person that we elected, and he cheated to get in.
2007-03-01 10:25:40 · 7 answers · asked by Chill 1 in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
America is not apathetic (although I agree with you, a little more noise about the harm this administration is doing wouldn't hurt). It is this administration that is apathetic!
3000 Americans lost their lives on 9/11, and THIS ADMINISTRATION does not care to: find out HOW it happened, find out WHAT mistakes were made, implement policies that will prevent it from happening again and most of all FIND AND TRY THE PEOPLE RESPONSIBLE?????
And yeah, try reminding Bush supporters of this and you aren't patriotic and how dare you question the President anyway. Except, that rule didn't and doesn't apply to Clinton, who is THEIR scapegoat for everything THIS president fails at!!!!!!!!!
Smile, people are starting to get smart. Even people who supported the Iraq war are starting to speak out that maybe it is NOT OUR responsibility to babysit different Muslim factions that want to kill each other in a civil war.
And I too will try to speak out more often.
2007-03-01 10:42:17 · answer #1 · answered by clueless_nerd 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Bravo my friend you have summed up the American experience quite nicely. Except that you left out the fact that it has become a normal business practice for corporate America to screw honest working Americans every chance they get. To add insult to injury 'our fearless leader' wants to get rid of over time and bring in as many foreigners as possible to ruin the economy among many other things. This country doesn't even care anymore. Those that do are so few that it is like yelling into a hurricane. When we can announce on national TV that its good to use Mexicans as slave labor (Something we did away with two hundred years ago) and that its OK we are in serious trouble.
2007-03-01 10:36:10 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Im sick of almost half of america acting exactly like Hank off of King of the Hill. One Republican farmer from Nebraska once said "Id vote for Hitler over a Democrat". That is the ignorance of people these days. Keep on voting your sons and daughters to their deaths Republicans!
2007-03-01 10:31:41 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Unfortunately half the nation would disagree with you, and that's the half with the most money for the most part.
I think US citizens started becoming more apathetic as our country grew larger. We are such a tiny fraction of our whole that we each feel insignificant. Plus, you have already stated a great reason we are apathetic. We gave our opinion and it didn't even matter.
2007-03-01 10:32:18 · answer #4 · answered by wildflower12 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes. America was more apathetic during the early parts of WW2 when Hitler was laying waste to Europe and Japan was raping its way through China.
The Democrats have the power to oppose the president, but they will not do much because they are weak-willed and affraid to do anything that might hurt them in '08.
2007-03-01 10:35:12 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Just how did he cheat to get in the white house? They counted the votes in Florida TWICE. Bush won both times so how is that cheating? I'm sick of hearing this liberal lie over and over and over and over again. And by the way, every time I hear someone say "I'm a patriot, but......", I just can't wait to hear the rest.
2007-03-01 10:35:21 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
Im pretty sure George W. Bush has not killed anyone, otherwise he would not be our president. However, the enemies of our great nation have killed Americans, leaving Iraq in chaos would be a crime against humanity in my opinion. We broke it, we have to fix it.
2007-03-01 10:33:58 · answer #7 · answered by asmith1022_2006 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋