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I'm angry. Yea, at ignorant people. Stupid people I can handle. But ignorance -in America- about the most basic concepts of being American, is intolerable and maddening.
I've been going to college on the insomnia plan -a class here and there about whatever I find interesting- for the past 25+ years, and I'm nobody special. I didn"t inhereit any money and I'm not particularly driven by money. In fact, I had a rather screwed up childhood and ended up with more than 7 years behind bars: two stints in prison and jailed in several states, mostly as a miscreant kid. But when I became a man I found the need to be responsible. I grew up and had an inert need to understand life and liberty. Aybody else?
Periodically I like to ask strangers various socio/politic questions. Just the other day as I was leaving the local community college I decided to pause and ask a few students a question. The (simple) question was this:
"What do you think about our Constitution guaranteeing to every state a republican form of government?" I asked 10 people and I got 10 ignorant answers! The answers included ridiculous responses like, "What? If that is in the constitution it should be stricken from the record!", and "There is no way the Constitution has a right to be so bias." and "Of course it (the Constitution) would be so closed minded. It was written by a bunch of narrow minded, Christian Republicans."
Another I use to ask -before I got so disgusted with the lack of a reasonable answer- is "Can you tell me what the Founders meant by 'republican form of government?" By vast numbers, even among our intellectual elite, the concept is so foreign (many insisted on demanding what my special agenda was for promoting such a devisive concept) most plead ignorance, simply fearing to 'get invloved.'
I hate complacency, ignorance, selfish action, and anyone who espouses emphatically that there is or isn't a God. I believe on possibilities, but I am losing faith in mankind generally. The Age of Information has yet to hit the most modern of countries.
OK, I have been silent long enough so here goes nothing!!!
I am so sick and tired of this forum leaning to the left...to the politically correct enthusiasts who, for the most part, live in vacuum filled world...to being slammed by Mods when I disagree with a poster who is clearly unpatriotic and this offend my as a combat veteran...and at all those who as so start new posts just so they can ask more dopey questions. I am sick at those who don't like the term "In God We Trust" and those who insult America in foreign based posts.
I am especially sick and tired of people trying to defend the "rights" of ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS.
There, I spouted out what many of you are thinking but don't want to share so let's see how it flies.
I just HATE..........the fact that I truly feel that I was LIED to as a kid and actually BELIEVED that TRUTH, JUSTICE, morals, ethics, integrity, accountability.........had to apply to all and ALL were characteristics in which to live by and be rewarded for but realize NOW..........
It's ALL about GREED.......rewarded by and achieving "success" by ANY and ALL means possible.............except from ANY of the ones above!
I HATE.......that it appears MORE people on this Earth than not.........don't seem to recognize
the beauty of their natural surroundings, take too much for granted, DESTROY more than create and don't appreciate or acknowledge that the very best things in life have NO PRICE TAG associated with them!
I HATE..........that it feels like this entire life and the people of this planet has been nothing more than a sick joke in the so-called "progress" of human evolution!
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Illegal immigration. My town was just a few years ago a peaceful, quiet place of mostly White people. Now illegal immigrants came and brought with them a lot of crime and gangs, and taking American jobs. It's not just the country effected by this, it's our lives. We have every right to be mad at something like this happening.
I hate, people who hate, for the sake of hate, to advance their personal agendas. I'd rather talk about what I love:
-I love my wife,my son, my house, my pet.
-I love my country, the American soldier,sailor,airman,marine.
-I love the freedom they preserve
-I love those that support all of the above and have positive attitudes about their country in spite of their personal vitriole when they are not winning the debate.
I don't really hate much. I dislike those that tend to jeopardize my enjoyment of what I love because of their perceptions of what they think I should hate.
I served my country and I believe if those who have not served served something other than themselves they would understand what I am trying to say. When you serve you become a part of something bigger than yourself. You lose some of the personal requirement to feed into your own narcissism. It becomes less important to you that your neighbor believes in God, or is conservative, or refuses to march to the myopic self serving assertions of minority views.
I would love to provide you your minority views so long as you don't hate me for my majority views.
I hate, people who hate, for the sake of hate, to advance their personal agendas. I'd rather talk about what I love:
-I love my wife,my son, my house, my pet.
-I love my country, the American soldier,sailor,airman,marine.
-I love the freedom they preserve
-I love those that support all of the above and have positive attitudes about their country in spite of their personal vitriole when they are not winning the debate.
I don't really hate much. I dislike those that tend to jeopardize my enjoyment of what I love because of their perceptions of what they think I should hate.
I served my country and I believe if those who have not served served something other than themselves they would understand what I am trying to say. When you serve you become a part of something bigger than yourself. You lose some of the personal requirement to feed into your own narcissism. It becomes less important to you that your neighbor believes in God, or is conservative, or refuses to march to the myopic self serving assertions of minority views.
I would love to provide you your minority views so long as you don't hate me for my majority views.
What am I so angry at?.....you CAN'T be serious!.....Just THINK, for ONE MINUTE....What am I so ANGRY AT?.....well, if YOU HAVEN'T FIGURED IT OUT BY NOW, I'm not going to TELL YOU !!......
I hate breed specific legislation, no trespass signs, political correctness, corrupt government, the total disregard for our immigration laws, disrespectful children, cashiers engaged in personal phone calls while on duty, and stepping in dog poop. Not necessarily in that order.
I don't like how people follow political parties instead of looking at the whole picture and going with the best person.
I don't like it that people complain but do nothing about it
I don't like when people sit in their happy little world and think that no matter whats going on it won't affect them.
I don't like political correctness.
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