You should flee and take all your high and mighty anti-American bullshit with you. It’s obvious that you only stay here because there’s better and more money in it for you here. Your loyalty lasts as long as the dollars are flowing your way. Fuck off.
When you experience 1500% inflation and your kids are starving, let me know if your stupid miniature flag and your Archie Bunker attitude of shouting, "USA! USA!" fills their empty bellies.
I've lived in other countries. I've been around the world. You seem to believe the USA is the only place with running water and edible food.
The USA doesn't have a monopoly on being a functional country with clean drinking water. In many regards the USA fails with basic infrastructure.
See if your flag-waving patriotism will fix the roads, the bridges, the dams, the failing grid. Go on, shout "USA!" for as long as you need until our infrastructure is fixed, our currency is stabilized, and our borders are secure. I'll wait.
The American Infrastructure Report Card from ASCE provides a look at America's infrastructure problems, such as bridge, water, transportation, and more.
infrastructurereportcard.org
Many of us our thankful that our ancestors left their messed up broken wrecks of nations when they did. In the 1990s many Russians went out of their way to come to the USA. The time is fast approaching, and is largely already here, where only the most absolute destitute miserable third world peasants from places such as Somalia and Haiti want to come to the United States. We are approaching a point where we will either embark on a painful road to national recovery that restores and redeems the United States, or we will descend into a miserable existence where our children and grandchildren will curse us for not having left for a more functional and viable country when the opportunity was available. It is quite possible that the generation that will be born in the 2030s is going to loathe and despise their parents for conferring American citizenship upon them at the time of their birth.
The USA is largely a broke woke joke.
The country is either going to undergo a mass awakening and uprising, or just wither and die on the vine.
It may shock you to learn that since you don't pay my bills, I don't give a hill of beans what you think about me, how I make my money, how I pay my bills, or that I look out for my interests because nobody else is going to do it for me.
When you pay my bills you can tell me how I should view the world and how I should prioritize things in life.
One of my best friends and legal colleagues was a Marine rifleman before he went to college, got a 4 year degree and then went on to law school. Want to see what he got for his service? He got a handicapped parking sticker, a diagnosis of PTSD and bipolar, pills, and ongoing appointments with all sorts of experts who haven't been able to do much to help him out, and he got clowns like you saying, "thank you for your service" to him and shouting at me for not wanting to get on board with that lifestyle and not claiming the USA is the end-all be-all of human existence and the best possible nation in the history of the entire world.
The USA is very similar to Late Republican Rome of the 1st century BC, in short, an ongoing dumpster fire of a society that is imploding.
Having read thousands of books and having studied the classics [I have a classical education as my foundation] I would say that ultimately Cato [the Younger] and Cicero both died for nothing, as they ultimately both failed to achieve their goals of preserving the Roman Republic. I am not willing to die for nothing. I will die for something meaningful and of a greater purpose, but not for nothing. If Americans rise up and inaugurate a civil war, I'll participate, but I'm not going to stay on a slowly sinking ship out of some misguided sense of foolish Archie Bunker cave-man patriotism, while everybody declines to do anything. I'm also not going to go off half-cocked as a lone-wolf revolutionary. In short, I'm not throwing the opening pitch for a revolution or a civil war, and if the game doesn't ultimately begin at some point then I will just get up and leave the stadium rather than rot in my seat.
Thomas Jefferson would have already organized a revolution. George Washington would have taken one look at the American people, washed his hands of them and retired to his estate. I'm okay with either of those options or anything in-between. It makes very little difference to me. I meet my work obligations, read, study, train BJJ/MMA, stay active outside, shoot precision rifles twice a week, regularly shoot pistols and carbines, plan, prepare, enjoy life, and do something each day to improve my mind, body, skills, finances, etc.
As one solitary man I cannot hold back the tide or change the course of a river. I've spent my entire life to this point preparing, waiting, and looking for a George Washington or Thomas Jefferson to rally to his banner, and I have never found any man worthy of having my rifle or my pen in his service.
It isn't my fault that your generation and your parent's generation lost this country for me and that I was born into the generation I was born into, thrown into the chaos of this modern world, and now I have to navigate all of this in the manner I see best, while dealing with clowns on the sidelines criticizing me. If it isn't the Woke Left condemning me for merely existing as a heterosexual white Christian male who is physically fit and upper-middle class, it is the Retrograde Neanderthal Right condemning me for not having an idolatrous altar devoted to the United States central government on my desk and a miniature American flag coming out of my ass.
The USA isn't a horrible place, but it is far from a great place. It is a basic normal nation with some strengths but unfortunately some significant flaws. It isn't my problem if you're sharing the mentality of some 300lb woman who claims Lizzo is a gorgeous 10/10 and you're so delusional you can't see obvious flaws and weaknesses. The USA is not perfect and I will never pretend it is. Indeed the USA has major flaws and is close to collapse.
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