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Originally Posted by Mr Mephisto
I keep telling them "It's not the country, it's the current Administration you should be angry with." Unfortunately not many of them agree and they now have a strong distaste for the country as a whole.
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I've been waiting for someone to say that. Because you see you're right - for now.
We should not yet be ashamed to be from America as many Americans are now saying. Bush ran on an isolationist platform. No one who voted for him could have any inkling of the idea that he would invade Iraq and turn the world against us. The American people are not to blame and should not be held accountable for our country's actions if they're ordered unilaterally by the president UNLESS
They fail to vote him out of office this election. See, if Bush is reelected in a fair (read: Florida doesn't fuck up) election, then it means that the majority of the country supports the idea that we should attack anyone we want to even if they pose no threat to us. It would mean that it's NOT just Bush screwing up, but that we're endorsing his screw up by putting him in office for another 4 years. THEN would be the time to be ashamed to be an American, because our country, rather than just one rogue leader and his posse of warmongers, has shifted from its original course of being a respected bulwark of freedom to being a tyrannical superpower.
Hopefully, I won't have to be ashamed to live here.