Can You Hate Me Now? What About Now? Now?

Let's talk politics, shall we? 

First off, let me state my political stance for the record. My own personal political belief is....that I should be Queen.

Politics is a very stupid subject. Stupid because it's the one topic where people could care less what they say, how they say it, or to whom they say it. Politics makes normal people become homicidal to the point where you find yourself looking at what was once your friendly neighbor and is now basically a snarling, crazed werewolf and you're afraid you might have to sell the house. Politics is the last free topic out there to really just remove all the civility and niceties from an otherwise sociologically advanced society and just let your inner rabid caveman loose.

I think the funniest thing about politics, especially American politics, is that nobody will admit to having had anything to do with whoever is in office. Somehow, someway, some idiot got himself elected and the entire nation must now suffer for it.

I, on the other hand, take politics less seriously than most, and here's why. To me, politics is just like college football. I don't follow it closely and I have no particular invested stake in either side. But...once I've been exposed to it (like some male in my house takes over the TV to watch a game or my husband decides he wants to fall asleep listening to The State of the Union Address like last night) I will listen and do you know who I root for? Whoever is doing the best. That's right. I only hope whoever is winning will continue to win, and whoever is losing can somehow triumph as the underdog and turn it all over. I don't care who wins. I just want to see a good rally, I want to see some really good defense, I want to see a really great offense, and I want a LOT of action to actually happen! 

When you think about it, American politics is hilarious because as Americans, let's face it: We need to be able to hate someone. I know, I know, that is soooo embarrassing, but it's true. Our entire country was founded on hate - hatred of England, hatred of organized religion, hatred of monarchy, hatred of bad teeth and bland food. So we came here and we started hating other people. American Indians, black people, Hispanic people, Japanese, Nazis, France, Cuba, Iraq, Iran, on and on and on. We hated and hated and it always makes us feel patriotic and politically superior to have someone else to hate. But somewhere along the way we became caught up in our own image of the Supernation, the most powerful country in the world, the global leader, that we realized we can't be #1 if we don't pretend to like everyone else. We forgot that we need someone else to focus our hate on in order for our country and our politics to move forward successfully. So we turned that hatred around on ourselves. We discovered that we can't export our hatred, but we can damn well import it as much as possible and turn it all toward......the most powerful man in the most powerful country in the world. Yep, we hate our President.

In the last several decades, as our country became more and more focused on our need to hate yet became less and less able to focus that hatred outward on the rest of the world, we started disbelieving in our President. Once we couldn't collectively beat down another country or another kind of person, we discovered that to keep our melting pot, purple dinosaur Barney "I love you, you love me," We Are The World singing mentality broadcasting to the rest of the world, we have to pretend we DO love everyone else. We have to always show the world that America means no persecution, no separate classes, no elitism. Everyone is welcome.

But we hate ourselves for this. We're the people hosting the party who keep looking at our watch going, "Are these people EVER going to leave? And who the hell invited THAT loser over there who's been sucking down every drink at the open bar?"

So we hate on our President. And not just our current President, but all of our presidents in the last several decades. It doesn't matter what political party we are or who we voted for or how hopeful or cynical we may be. We don't believe in our country anymore. We don't believe our President can do anything. We give him less credit and hope and belief in his words than we would give a time-share salesman. We want change, but we don't want to pay the price for it, at ANY price. We want better everything, but don't tax us for it. We want the budget balanced, but not with our own money. We want health care for everyone, but we don't want the government involved. Anyone else notice the pattern? We want, want, want......but have no desire to do the work or pay the price it actually requires. So we hate our President, not for HIS false promises of change that will never happen, but for our own inability to allow any change to move forward. We're mad because we want the magical America where everything automatically happens with the wave of a wand and we're mad because we've all become too entitled and lazy for anything to realistically happen. So instead we hate.

We've discovered that our need to hate is so great that we'd rather take our free speech and focus all that hate right back on the one person who represents all of our freedoms. We now feel so UN-free that we have to hate all that our leader stands for. We've given away everything in our attempt to be everything to everyone on this planet, that all we have left for ourselves is the freedom to hate what we've become. We were so busy trying to make everyone else like us that we don't even like ourselves. We have tied ourselves up so tight with political correctness in every possible walk of our American life that all we have left to attack is our very own President. Ask anyone what they think of the President, and you'll find we are no better than any of the lesser countries we've spent so much time and effort trying to "help" and "make better." Charity starts at home, people, and you can wave a flag all you want, but you can't call our President anti-American or unpatriotic when you can't even be bothered to show any support. Patriotism isn't about how high you wave your flag, it's about how loudly you show your support, and from where I stand, some of you so-called patriots could stand to have that flag pole pulled out of your ass so you can start standing up for your country and your President instead of showing the rest of the world we're nothing more than a bunch of bitter little brats who can't appreciate all that we have. And THAT is my political opinion.


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