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I think we need an attitude shift across the country. Let's look at what we've voted for. For this thread I'm assuming Bush won because that's the way it's looking right now.
-Gay marriage bans in states all over the country. We've voted to restrict freedoms. Gay people are now officially the segregated society. We think we've advanced so much in the tolerance department because we no longer call black people niggers, but really all we've done is shift our vitriolic hate over to another group of people.
-We now officially approve of the war in Iraq, which means we like the idea of invading a county that hasn't done anything to us, just for the pure sake of starting a war.
-We believe the rich should get tax breaks while the poor and middle class are bled dry by the government.
-We believe that if people are going to break a law, we should simply get rid of the law (Bush: "We can't tax rich people because they'll just get out of it.")
-We believe having a liar in the whitehouse is OK, as long as he doesn't lie about sex.
-We believe it's a good idea to keep a president who changes his story every five minutes on why he's invading a county. (WMD's. Oh, no WMDs but he's connected to terrorism. Oh, he's not connected to terrorism, but he's a really mean old man!)
In short, we've turned away from the founding prinicpals that once made this nation great.
I've said for the past 4 years that I'm not ashamed to be an American because 1) we didn't put our leader there and 2) even if we did we had no clue he'd commit the atrocities he did.
Now that he appears to be about to be officially elected, I AM ashamed to be an American.
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