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I am beginning to have the same sentiment about America as I do about 'heaven.'
Why would I want to be there if it's just full of a bunch of assholes? Call me anti-American if you need to, but this is not the America I signed onto many years ago. I've been betrayed.
The problem is not just that one side tries to make folks 'fear' the other, it's that the things people are being told to fear right now are totally fucking ridiculous. Fairy tales and boogey men. It's embarrassing.
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Most people go through life dreading they'll have a traumatic experience. Freaks were born with their trauma. They've already passed their test in life. They're aristocrats. - Diane Arbus
PESSIMISM, n. A philosophy forced upon the convictions of the observer by the disheartening prevalence of the optimist with his scarecrow hope and his unsightly smile. - Ambrose Bierce
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