A lot of valid points in here, intermingled with some interesting rants. What most concerns me is that the author talks about his upbringing in a normal American household with all of the perks and memories that many of us have about growing up in America.
Where I have issue is when the author says “Screw you, America”. I won’t place the burden of America’s ills on this writer but I will say that his attitude is part of what is wrong with America and how we got to the point we are today. America IS a great country with great, wonderful and compassionate people. It is worth defending and fighting for and, rather than giving America the finger for the changes we are undergoing today, we ALL need to fight back and take America back from those who want to destroy our country.
But, when things get tough, if we all pick up our toys and go home, America, the land we love, suffers and changes character. We can’t change things for the better if we all adopt the “Screw you, America” attitude; it makes us bystanders at a train wreck.
It's certainly fine for the illegal immigrants to cry about oppression or the proverbial cultural bogeyman “The Man” and the “Vast Right Wing Conspiracy” and the “racists” and the “sexists” and the “anti-gays” and “misogynists” and the other various well-accepted cultural and political scapegoats for every little self-important special interest group in America. And they certainly seem to be getting what they want.
Frankly, I am sick of it. So my point about “Screw you, America” is directed at these people. I, like many others, are sick and tired of carrying these people around, playing tiptoe so as to to “offend” them, and then watching as they have slowly destroyed any semblance of the America I need.
So you know what, let these people do all of the heavy lifting for a while. Perhaps, it is my time to bitch and moan and complain for a change. The days of wasting time so that these special interests can just game the system and have the nerve to claim special status is over as far as I am concerned.
Its a cultural war now. Gloves off.
The days of the gentleman fighter are over.