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Originally posted by slimpiggy
(snip complaints)
why are you proud?
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Because despite most of this, and in some cases because of it, we still have as a nation the highest quality of life in the world. I had no armed guards at the polling station on election day. If I'd chosen I could have cast my vote for a party whose worst offence was financial corruption. I have more freedom than any citizen in the biggest democracy in the world, and I enjoy it in a place with low pollution, low crime, and low poverty.
Really. If this is the best you can do to try to curb today's patriotism, I'm pretty damn proud.