Thoughts for today
I'm not really up to any great pontifications today, so I'll keep it simple.I'm not quite sure that I like being an american anymore. There are certainly worse places to live. However, looking at the world today, I'm somewhat convinced that we are the enemies of freedom. We support despotic regimes, fight to topple democratically elected leaders and are the bottom of the pile for humanitarian aid amongst the so-called civilized nations.
Some people seem to labor under the delusion that we are "spreading democracy" throughout the world. Our record doesn't really support that. We're more than happy to give money and arms to despotic regimes. Out of the 25 top nations that receive arms from us, 20 of them are either undemocratic or known civil-rights violators.
We are also the only fundamentalist developed nation. We don't really support freedom at home, we are growing increasingly repressionist. Women's rights are being challenged, there is still a lot of racism and the treatment of homosexuals is straight out of the dark ages. The line between church and state grows increasinly thin as the neocons continue their stranglehold on the nation, with a wonderful opportunity right now to put 2 judges to life appointments on the Supreme Court.
Do I stay and fight, or just go where I can be happy? I've asked that before, and come back to it repeatedly.
posted by WunEyedDog @ 5:10 PM
3 Comments:
norway!
It's tempting.
norway has once again topped the un best country to live in. did you know that norway puts much of their oil money (181 billion or so) in a fund for future norwegians? worst place to live? sierra leone.
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