I heard that line again. If there is one phrase from this last decade that needs to die, it’s “We fight them there, so we don’t have to fight them here!”
How, pray tell, do you stand up and cheer at the Olympics for a nation of people who hide and cower behind their troops and hired mercenary army…a nation of people so unwilling to fight to defend their own homes, that they would rather send their children to kill people in someone else’s homes?
This last decade was a nearly unbearable shame. A complete humiliation. As if having our economy turn into a joke wasn’t bad enough, we had a President, our “avatar”, our “representative to the World”…couldn’t string together complete sentences. Threw out quotations in public like the town drunk. I want the smartest, most charismatic person I can find to represent me to the rest of the world, not the biggest idiot I could find. But what’s worse of all, the American people turned into the biggest bunch of pussies I have ever seen in my entire life because we were attacked.
I was raised with all the standard propaganda. I was led to believe that we were a nation of “rugged individualists” who would “fight for our freedom at any cost”. And yet, here we were, saying something as cowardly as “We fight them there, so we don’t have to fight them here!”. Except, of course, the people doing all the fighting…weren’t them. Those people were hiding HERE. Not fighting. Not defending our freedom. Not giving a chickenshit terrorist who hides in caves, among innocent civilians, and in holes who has brainwashed kids do his killing for him…not giving that guy the keys to our freedoms, just giving up what we fought for, just becoming a locked down, less free society. Not let this scumbag play our country for fools.
The humiliation of all of this is too much to bear. The only options people like me have is to give up, or go sign up and be cannon fodder. I’d rather our country be REALLY strong, not let these scumbags drain our country dry AND not hide…but to tell the middle east to fuck off, take our troops out, tell them that there’s no way in HELL we will sell our massive water supply to them unless they turn over these criminals and pledge to do the same to anyone who’d attack us from then on out, shore up our defenses here at home, and make it a massive, singular mission to reject fossil fuels entirely and replace them with our own resources. Run our economy on our own terms.
But that’s not all. The humiliation leaks over to the job market. It’s awfully hard to prove how good the American worker is when corporations get paid to take their jobs away and stick them in other countries. There’s no way that the American worker, especially in the high tech arena where there are plenty of good paying jobs, can compete with people who are getting government run health care out of the gate AND can live comfortably on 10 bucks an hour because their government represses the value of their currency. The saddest thing of all is that two generations were completely brainwashed into thinking that they were being noble by accepting, and even defending, being screwed over and robbed by people with so much wealth already that they can’t even really spend it all in a lifetime. Literally, they’re taking your hard-earned money out of your children’s college fund and using it to wipe their backsides. They don’t need it! But these people being robbed, for whatever reason, think it’s okay and that “the rights of rich people have to be protected too!”. Yes, their rights have to be protected. But they have no right to steal from you…they used some of that extra cash on hand to buy up politicians so that they could legitimately steal from you. Then they go offshore some jobs and you have no options but to take your Computer Science degree and work fast food with no health care and hope you can figure out how to get through the month.
People need to start breaking through those walls and get comfortable with the notion that to save this country, we might have to take what we need to survive out of the pockets of those who have far, far more than they need to get by. The bottom line is that it’s for their best interest. They’re drunk on cash. They’re obsessed to the point that they’re nearsighted…what good is their money if the society collapses, if the economy collapses? It would be worth nothing more than paper. Maybe it would be better to solidify the economy, the job market, and in turn, the society…and protect what you’ve got left, then to let it all turn into toilet paper. You’d think.