I’ve been thinking about this with the change of seasons. The 4th of July will be in a few months. I grew up in the 90s. It was kind of cool. I was told I hit the jackpot and was born in the best country on earth. I believed that for a long time. That we are something exceptional, that things will exponentially get better as time passes. And maybe that was true in some ways. But then Donald Trump happened, everybody I know went insane, Covid happened, and now we just acceptingly sleepwalk into a dystopia.
Patriotism, in the flag waving, proud to be an American apolitical sense, is pretty much dead for me. My country is being ripped apart and heading toward a place we can’t return from. I’m more ashamed of being an American than anything. I stay silent during the ‘pledge of allegiance”. I see someone with an American flag on clothing and I assume they’re a deranged MAGA. I just don’t see any other way to feel about it. I don’t hate my country or want to burn it down, though. I want it to do well and heal its wounds. It’s a difficult divide.
Where are you at with the topic of patriotism?
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I’ve been thinking about this with the change of seasons. The 4th of July will be in a few months. I grew up in the 90s. It was kind of cool. I was told I hit the jackpot and was born in the best country on earth. I believed that for a long time. That we are something exceptional, that things will exponentially get better as time passes. And maybe that was true in some ways. But then Donald Trump happened, everybody I know went insane, Covid happened, and now we just acceptingly sleepwalk into a dystopia.
Patriotism, in the flag waving, proud to be an American apolitical sense, is pretty much dead for me. My country is being ripped apart and heading toward a place we can’t return from. I’m more ashamed of being an American than anything. I stay silent during the ‘pledge of allegiance”. I see someone with an American flag on clothing and I assume they’re a deranged MAGA. I just don’t see any other way to feel about it. I don’t hate my country or want to burn it down, though. I want it to do well and heal its wounds. It’s a difficult divide.
Where are you at with the topic of patriotism?
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