Sorry it took so long to respond...
Am I being overly patriotic?
YES. Patriotism was cool for 15 mins following 9/11... everyone put out their American flags, the before and after pictures of run down lower middle
class homes from Virginia Main Streets were inspiring as they went from crap, to brightly colored red white and blue.
But what changed was not ... really.. our attitude, it was "those other peoples attitudes" .. What I refer to is the select group, very small, that
get offended by EVERYTHING. To be patriotic is to be a bigot, an isolationist, a warmonger, a racist etc.. Then there are different terms of "what
is patriotic" .. I would say Slayer, that the Patriotism you and I follow is frowned upon by the Liberal Left, and the Socialist Right.
Globalism
A World without Borders is the goal of the political and economic elite.. to break down borders opens trade, thus profit, not to mention a flood of
dirt poor immigrants to do you bidding for 10 cents an hour. The corporations pushing globalism are the ones who own the politicians, the courts, the
TV' stations, the music industry, Hollywood etc.. I believe Europe is a prime example of the destructive power of Globalism .. the European Union has
successfully done what Rome failed to do, what Napoleon failed to do, what the Catholic Church failed to do, what the USSR failed to do, what Hitler
failed to do.. destroy National identiy and formulate a massive super state. It's the same force that destroys the traditional American values, why
"American First" is deemed ignorant.
One thing is for certain .. empires don't last forever, an America has lasted longer than anyone else in history as a World Superpower without
competition .. so we will either give rise to a new more powerful superstate that will eventually destroy us, or else we will internally rot until we
are reduced to a shell of what we once were, and then ultimately collapse.. probably not in my life time, but eventually.. time destroys
everything.
But Slayer if you really want to know what America's problem is.. if you want to reduce it to a paragraph.. no .. a sentence.. hell, to one WORD
..then I believe we can summarize EVERYTHING since the 1880's -- APATHY
We are apathetic towards everything .. our leaders walk all over us, an extreme minority dictates our moral compass, politicians pimp us,
pharmaceuticals poison us, banks robbed us, nations are buying us bit by bit, and above all, our Government betrayed us. But as long as it doesn't
creep into our homes were we cower in fear hoping, that at the very least the Feds will just leave us alone in our own homes, then we simply don't
give a damn.
