Either America has changed, or the America that I was taught to believe in was false to begin with.
I still trying to decide which it is.
Can you let ME know when you figure it out? :)
Prior to Terri, I certainly wasn't naive'. I understood how "politics" worked, but I then, my eyes were REALLY opened prior to Terri, around the election, when I did begin to feel that America seemed to have changed!
I've thought about it A LOT and I believe that America began to change with the clinton administration. At no time in our history was there a Presidential administration like Clinton's!
I can't recall a time, wherein a PRESIDENT literally sold the PEOPLE'S HOUSE OUT for a PRICE! Lincoln's bedroom, etc...under handed campaign funds, funneled through communist entities, etc....
Although politicians were *politicians* and everyone always just accepted the old politicians are *politicians* adage and mindset, I've never in my life seen such, crooked, underhanded, illegal, DASTARDLY, mean spirited, EVIL, selfish, unAmerican, hateful, despicable, will stop at NOTHING to WIN political maneuvering, like I witnessed during this last election, which was then.....only CONFIRMED, during Terri's ordeal!
I don't recall the existence of such HATEFULNESS! Such a love for EVERYTHING immoral and just plain MEAN & EVIL! The way that I grew up, with the mindset that I was raised with and others in my age group and those before me, seems to have become the reverse and has become the repulsive trend and mindset today?
Everything that we were told that was bad, is now good, correct, appropriate and the only acceptable minset! Everything we were taught that was good and worthwhile, has now become an EVIL and DISGUSTING mindset!
I am leaning heavily towards AMERICA has CHANGED significantly and DRASTICALLY! But then who the heck knows? I might be WRONG? Perhaps AMERICA has ALWAYS been *this way* and I was just BRAIN WASHED into believing otherwise?
(Wish I could use a SHOCKED emoticon!)
I've just become so deeply SADDENED and so DISAPPOINTED by it all!
I never thought that I would ever live to see the day, when AMERICA would allow and WATCH, a court ordered and court sanctioned DEATH of a helpless, disabled fellow American!
What's more, is the FACT that there are so many other AMERICANS, who have actually JUSTIFIED what took place and call it RULE OF LAW and LEGAL, as if this was a NORMAL, COMMON OCCURRENCE in American!
Although I remain POSITIVE, in terms of my FAMILY, my FRIENDS, my GOD, my FAITH and the fact that I KNOW that there are other Americans such as yourself, who still believe that what was once Good is still GOOD and what was once bad is still BAD...YES, THIS......has FOREVER changed me and has FOREVER changed my whole PERSPECTIVE!