@OANST:
Yep you caught me I am completely oblivious to the history of this country and that wasn't a cut to the chase comment expressing my concerns about current time events based on what I've seen occur over the past 5 years minimum.
"Where's the freedom of speech in the Leader of the Free World?"
In the Ferguson situation so far, Freedom of Speech has been violated so many times in such a short period of time and it continues to happen, and nothing's been done about it. That link I posted was the first I'd heard of any higher power taking action, and I haven't checked to see how that's going over yet.
So in the most pessimistic way possible, I responded to STM with "There is none". It's an over exaggeration, I was hoping it was read as a dark joke rather than completely dead serious.
People can't understand what's wrong with our country because literally every source of teaching for the past 20 years, at least, has told us our country is the greatest on the planet and people are dying to get in here and every other county strives to be us, and you will never live in any place better. We are truly free. We established this country peacefully. The world loves us.
We pledge our loyalty to our country every day before class in unison, and don't even understand the words. Then, once we're old enough to understand what we're doing, if we refuse we're looked down upon and punished for it. It wasn't until I was almost out of highschool I found out I had the right not to say the pledge and it was illegal to be punished for it.
At least, that's the kind of education I got.
When you're told something continuously for so long, if someone says otherwise, it seems like a crock of shit, even if they're a reliable source. That takes a lot of unlearning and suspension of belief, which is too much effort for a lot of people, slowing down the progress an insane amount.
Also what STM said because he's a speedy shit
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