The answer to your question is yes and no. I love America the country. I love the spectacular countryside and the easy-going way of life. I've travelled and worked in the country for about ten consecutive summers. I have friends there I met both on- and offline.
And yes, I do have something against the current American Administration and the way they run the country (as does half the country's voters). I have a huge problem with the way they're cutting down on the American people's civil liberties, calling themselves morally superior while behaving in the most intolerant, bigot and hypocritical way imaginable.
I have an even bigger problem with the way they're acknowledging other countries' existence only when those other countries happen to agree with them, otherwise happily ignoring them because as the biggest bully on the schoolyard, they think they can get away with it. (My own country of Germany one of the axis of pain-in-the-ass).
I have a problem with the way the current government can't see that there's a bigger picture, that in a global world all our fate's are connected, whether we want it or not.
I have a problem with the way the Administration lies to the people again and again, and with the way the media comply. I don't even want to imagine what the state of affais would be without the almost uncensored and free exchange of information on the internet. 'Cause the American mainstream media ain't doing the job.
Well, I could say more, but many others have said it so much more eloquently this past week than I ever could. Take a look around livejournal, see what american liberals and gay people and foreigners have to say, you'll get an idea why people might have something against America.
That icon was created by an American citizen, by the way.
Wow, i wasn't meaning it in a bad way, i was just asking a question. Chill. I know what you mean by the whole administration thing, i agree. I do love America though. I love the way people are so happy here and i've lived here my entire life. I'm making like no sense right now due to the fact i'm really really tired. I'm sorry for upsetting you. And i found your journal by searching random.
Then sorry I overrreacted... I mistunderstood your comment, but then again, it's been that kind of week. And there are plenty of people who wouldn't agree at all with what I said. Granted, you don't run into them on livejournal very often, but they must be out there, judging from the election result.
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The answer to your question is yes and no. I love America the country. I love the spectacular countryside and the easy-going way of life. I've travelled and worked in the country for about ten consecutive summers. I have friends there I met both on- and offline.
And yes, I do have something against the current American Administration and the way they run the country (as does half the country's voters). I have a huge problem with the way they're cutting down on the American people's civil liberties, calling themselves morally superior while behaving in the most intolerant, bigot and hypocritical way imaginable.
I have an even bigger problem with the way they're acknowledging other countries' existence only when those other countries happen to agree with them, otherwise happily ignoring them because as the biggest bully on the schoolyard, they think they can get away with it. (My own country of Germany one of the axis of pain-in-the-ass).
I have a problem with the way the current government can't see that there's a bigger picture, that in a global world all our fate's are connected, whether we want it or not.
I have a problem with the way the Administration lies to the people again and again, and with the way the media comply. I don't even want to imagine what the state of affais would be without the almost uncensored and free exchange of information on the internet. 'Cause the American mainstream media ain't doing the job.
Well, I could say more, but many others have said it so much more eloquently this past week than I ever could. Take a look around livejournal, see what american liberals and gay people and foreigners have to say, you'll get an idea why people might have something against America.
That icon was created by an American citizen, by the way.
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