I hate America at this moment.

[bhunt70]

I'm American. I live a couple miles from Washington DC. I'm a minority, although I pass for white. I'm a life long Democrat. I no longer live in the America I grew up with.

I now live in an America that values are political issues, not family issues.

I now live in America that has cares more about the industry than it does the workers. I live in an America where its cool to stand in line rather than to stand apart. When I was young I always wanted to be different, as I got older I just wanted to fit in more, now I don't have a choice.

Religious freedom was just that, now it's freedom for the religious, or at least those that act religious, or maybe that it's freedom for those that have a lot of money and power.

Instead of overall acceptance, we get division as our national feel good motto. "Don't give us your huddle masses unless they are like us". Every issue black or white, right or wrong, for or against. Being smart, questioning authority, making good judgements based on facts instead of faith...all over looked now. Wrong side of the tracks.

I grew up learning to experience things for myself, now people are taught whats right or wrong. Maybe I was just a product of parents who had their heyday in the 60's and 70's. Maybe I just grew up. In either case I don't like what America has become. It just doesn't "feel" right anymore. the list could go on for days...

"I loved the way it was, hate the way it is...now" - Richard Ashcroft, The Verve


please let this sink into the abyss of posts...I just needed to say something.