Better than it was ten years ago. Today is an important day for us, unfortunately. I was awake for the whole thing. It was pretty surreal. This entire country changed, and unfortunately because of how sensational patriotisim became, we became addicted to sensational, political news.
We did used to fight all the time, we argued a lot., but it wasn't this fight where everyone stops working together if someone disagrees.
Things could be a lot.better, but in the wake of 9/11, this is a much safer time for me. Don't get me wrong, shit is fucked, but please don't insult my leader. That's not fair. Obama gets a bad rap due to this sensationalism in our news because apparently he's supposed to be the Michael Jordan of Presidents or something. The bar they set for him is bullshit. It's a heavy burden and I doubt any other President has been under the pressure like Barack except for maybe Washington.
He's done what be believed he could. He did a better job than the las guy, but since he's the first black President people expect him to either be the greatest of all time or gtfo.
He's a good dude. This is a (mostly) good place. I love my country and what we do for the world and I am disappointed that we don't do more good because we are capable.
Please don't use a day that traumatized a whole nation to tell us about ourselves. I know we kill people. We kill people (most the time) protecting nations that can't defend themselves. People bitch about our military when someone dies, but they don't seem to want to thank us when we show up to nations in danger of mass death due to tidal waves and hurricanes. We show up to help at every major disaster to provide relief.
If we didn't, people would bitch about it. Know why? That's our job. That's us helping the world. We save more lives with our military for people an aren't even citizens of our nation!
No one expects this from Russia, or China, or England, or Italy, or Mexico. Nope. But it's expected of us.
And we're there every time we can be.
You're welcome.
Never forget, never settle for less.