Reply #10: Great post, Derek.

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You're right. I'm not longing for the good old days. It took this administration and all the stuff that's happened in the last 3 years to make me realize that we were never what I had 'imagined' we were.

That's what hurts and angers me the most about my own stupidity or gullibility.

Someone posted a poll earlier about favorite patriotic song. I can't listen to them anymore. I use to think our flag was so beautiful, I loved the colors, the design everything about it. Now it makes me sick to see it plastered everywhere. Raggedy ass flags waving from car antennas and anything that won't move.

I would like to think that we can be what we ought to be but, imho - we're too far gone. Maybe I feel this way because I'm older and don't have the fire in the belly that a lot of young people have.