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Originally posted by kddani
Agree 100% with this. Last thing I checked, they said we were fighting this war for freedom, among other things. Seems that people like to conveniently "forget" that. I'm not sure where along the line the concept of freedom became so selective.
If we don't have the freedom to disagree with this country and people are telling those who disagree to GTFO, then what on earth are these men and women fighting for?
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Let me ask you something. If you're one of those people who simply does not agree with anything our government does, WHY are you staying? Oh wait, I forgot. You're staying because you have the FREEDOM to stay, and quite frankly, the freedoms that are given to us are pretty damn good. Freedom of religion, freedom of speech, and among all, freedom to soak up the benefits of what this country has to offer, but yet some people are still never satisfied.
My comment was directed towards people who were so shallow and so immature that they cant see past the war to the other benefits that we have. There was a thread last year, right after the elections, people where saying "oh god, if Bush gets re-elected, I'm fleeing this country." PUH-LEASE. If you can find another place in the world that gives you the same privileges, then by all means, go for it.
If you dont like the way the government is being ran, DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT, rather than just bitching and moaning. On a very small scale version of this, I was personally having issues with my school's student government association. Rather than piss and moan about it, I did research, I asked questions, I lit a fire up under their butts and have actually been offered a position on the council now. While that might not be anything compared to the US government, there is something to learn for it.
The US is a very Coke Versus Pepsi kinda place - Conservative or Liberal (even if you're technically somewhere in between, most people realize that in order to get someone semi-decent in office, you might as well vote for one of the majority, cause if you're libertarian and vote libertarian, you're really just throwing your vote away from someone who actually had a shot of winning office - Hello Mr. Perot!) You don't HAVE to like the "current administration"....but if you HATE it THAT much, then why dont you actually get off your butt and do something about it? Or, as I mentioned earlier, be a coward and run. You have the freedom to leave. That's why America is so great.
Unfortunately, some people take the GTFO comment a little to literally. Yeah, I mean it, because honestly, if I HATED something SO MUCH that i had nothing better to do with my time than piss and moan about it, I probably would leave. But the fact remains that aside from the war, and whatever other miniscule issues you have with the government, we all have it pretty darn good. Sometimes you gotta make sacrifices for the overall good. My problems with the government dont involve the war. My problems involve welfare, abortion and affirmative action. I think all three need to go out the window - but I'm not SO passionate about those 3 aspects that I "hate" our country - because I know that there are other benefits keeping me here, and I know that I cant have "my way" 100% of the time. Too bad too many other people can't grasp that concept either.