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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsI am sorry to say it but:
Our nation has been turned in to a giant fucking soap opera. It is but a shell of itself when I first learned about the United States in Germany as my family was planning to immigrate to the US.
CurtEastPoint
(18,664 posts)(language alert!)
This shit is worse than Honey Boo Boo, DuckFuckers Whatsis and Real Housewives of Alabama. Once again, ashamed of my country because of HIM.
ButSeeYa
(273 posts)History has proven that we are a strong resilient nation. We will get thru this.
Va Lefty
(6,252 posts)TeapotInATempest
(804 posts)But I am. I'll take the time to remember how impossible the odds were against us even forming a nation to begin with. I mean, things were pretty bleak at Valley Forge.
As George Washington says in Hamilton (the musical, of course):
"Son, we are outgunned,
Outmanned,
Outnumbered,
Outplanned..."
Or, as he actually wrote:
"It will not be believed that such a force as Great Britain has employed for eight years in this Country could be baffled
by numbers infinitely less, composed of men oftentimes half starved, always in Rags, without pay, and experiencing, at times, every species of distress which human nature is capable of undergoing.
What those men and women built, we can re-build; I really believe it.
(Although, being no Pollyanna, I admit I do sometimes despair.)
Wounded Bear
(58,713 posts)this is reality TV writ large on our national gov't.
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)We have lived up to our stereotype and it's pretty ugly.
Kaleva
(36,351 posts)Doreen
(11,686 posts)Oh yeah, mixed with a horror movie.