So true.. and when they say ignorance is bliss.. it’s not.. it’s ignorance.. remembering the country I thought it was, while now being incredibly thankful I know the truth, instills a resolve to do what I can to help usher in that sustainable “even better America” !!
The America we grew up in is responsible for the America we live in.
We sat on our couches drinking beer, watching meaningless sportsball games while a cancer metastasized throughout the entire country. When we had thousands of chances to disinfect the sick, festering rot right under our noses, we did nothing.
The few people who were doing something, the one or two people standing outside of an abortion clinic with signs begging women not to kill their children, you didn't pick up a sign and stand beside them... all the way until some states are even considering allowing post birth abortions.
When that one God fearing man went to a faggot pride parade and said, "This is sick degenerate filth", you covered your face in embarrassment instead of standing beside him... and now we have trans storytelling time in classrooms across the nation.
When our politicians started to erode our second amendments rights we said "Who needs a rocket launcher anyways?"... Until you can't own a weapon with more than ten rounds in a magazine in some states.
I could go on and on and on and on and on.
Freedom isn't something you get as a trophy and put on a shelf and say "Yay, I have freedom now!"
Freedom is a valuable and complex machine that requires constant maintenance, vigilant watchfulness and constant, sometimes violent, protection.
Rather than doing any of that we sat there and let them take that machine apart bit by bit while saying "Well... Freedom doesn't really need ALL of those parts to run. They can have some of them and it will still be freedom."
As I was reading what you wrote I was thinking we were at transitioning from number 1 to number 2. Which leads to my favorite word Courage! Courage isn’t the absence of fear. It’s being afraid but still willing to tackle difficult issues. This is where many Anons are.
I miss the days where I would get home from school and hop on my bicycle. I would ride all over the place without a care in the world. Used to be able to go the local mall and hang out all evening with my friends. Not a worry in the world.
But now I am older and awake...I realize that we have all been lied to by sinister people with no regard for the millions of people who trusted them, who died for them, who believed in them.
Think of it. Our leaders, had they been better, stronger, ethical people COULD have created a perfect UNION. They had the POWER to build a beautiful wonderful place where ALL people would know SECURITY, safety, prosperity, and agency for their lives. Instead, they were GREEDY. They sold all the souls who died for this country fighting fictional wars created for profit.
If it were up to me, I would unearth everyone of those bastards and burn what is left of their bodies on a pire. I would wipe their names from everything and obliterate their legacies. They would only exist in the education taught to every child about how EVIL people once betrayed honest hard working people so they could have more money than someone else.
Little local band used to put on the best live shows I've ever seen in my life. Sound track to the best summers of my life. This is there newer song when they came together before Jeff died.
The new America will be even better. I don't care how old you are, you've been lied to your entire life.
So true.. and when they say ignorance is bliss.. it’s not.. it’s ignorance.. remembering the country I thought it was, while now being incredibly thankful I know the truth, instills a resolve to do what I can to help usher in that sustainable “even better America” !!
The America we grew up in is responsible for the America we live in.
We sat on our couches drinking beer, watching meaningless sportsball games while a cancer metastasized throughout the entire country. When we had thousands of chances to disinfect the sick, festering rot right under our noses, we did nothing.
The few people who were doing something, the one or two people standing outside of an abortion clinic with signs begging women not to kill their children, you didn't pick up a sign and stand beside them... all the way until some states are even considering allowing post birth abortions.
When that one God fearing man went to a faggot pride parade and said, "This is sick degenerate filth", you covered your face in embarrassment instead of standing beside him... and now we have trans storytelling time in classrooms across the nation.
When our politicians started to erode our second amendments rights we said "Who needs a rocket launcher anyways?"... Until you can't own a weapon with more than ten rounds in a magazine in some states.
I could go on and on and on and on and on.
Freedom isn't something you get as a trophy and put on a shelf and say "Yay, I have freedom now!"
Freedom is a valuable and complex machine that requires constant maintenance, vigilant watchfulness and constant, sometimes violent, protection.
Rather than doing any of that we sat there and let them take that machine apart bit by bit while saying "Well... Freedom doesn't really need ALL of those parts to run. They can have some of them and it will still be freedom."
Life cycle of a country:
From bondage to spiritual faith;
From spiritual faith to great courage;
From courage to liberty;
From liberty to abundance; <--- You are reminiscing this part of the cycle.
From abundance to complacency;
From complacency to apathy;
From apathy to dependence; <--- We were heading here. Then Trump happened.
From dependence back into bondage
As I was reading what you wrote I was thinking we were at transitioning from number 1 to number 2. Which leads to my favorite word Courage! Courage isn’t the absence of fear. It’s being afraid but still willing to tackle difficult issues. This is where many Anons are.
I miss the days where I would get home from school and hop on my bicycle. I would ride all over the place without a care in the world. Used to be able to go the local mall and hang out all evening with my friends. Not a worry in the world.
But now I am older and awake...I realize that we have all been lied to by sinister people with no regard for the millions of people who trusted them, who died for them, who believed in them.
Think of it. Our leaders, had they been better, stronger, ethical people COULD have created a perfect UNION. They had the POWER to build a beautiful wonderful place where ALL people would know SECURITY, safety, prosperity, and agency for their lives. Instead, they were GREEDY. They sold all the souls who died for this country fighting fictional wars created for profit.
If it were up to me, I would unearth everyone of those bastards and burn what is left of their bodies on a pire. I would wipe their names from everything and obliterate their legacies. They would only exist in the education taught to every child about how EVIL people once betrayed honest hard working people so they could have more money than someone else.
There was much I didn’t know then though that was going on. Knowing is better despite how unpleasant things are now.
You got me on a nostalgia trip fren. I landed here.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=7UMn6bxlFuI
Let the good times be remembered. My kids don't know how fun shit was.
No as the America we all grew up in was a fucking LIE. What you miss is being in a bubble of ignorance.
I miss a society where race was never a consideration, where politics didn't filter everything all the time, and snowflake lefties weren't a thing.
Last one, I promise. I can't believe this even exists online.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=a6lEZplsERc
Letting the kids....play, eat, speak, run, sing, laugh, dance without being stifled by masks and nonsense.
Truth
Little local band used to put on the best live shows I've ever seen in my life. Sound track to the best summers of my life. This is there newer song when they came together before Jeff died.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=90XK1-Ap5tc
Right in the feels frens. Like a freight train. "Times were good then here, times that I have known. Where have they gone?"