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azurelunatic) wrote2001-09-30 12:08 pm
azurelunatic) wrote2001-09-30 12:08 pm
Sunshine Patriots
I don't wear a flag.
I don't think I'd be very happy living in any other country. I like the country I grew up in too much to do that. I like the way I think I can make a difference by voting or yammering at the people in office, I like the way I could try and run for office if I wanted to do something, I like the way we actually have a legal system that can be changed and fought and hammered on. I don't like the way that sometimes innocent people get caught in the crossfire between the law and those outside of the law, and I don't like the way that sometimes some laws are ass-dumb, but I like the way that I don't get shot out of hand for saying "Hey, this needs changing."
The health care system sucks. My country could stand to rise up on that issue -- hell, I'd give up 5% more of my income to never have to worry about finding a doctor that takes my insurance provider again, if I could just go in to the nearest pharmacy and give them my social security number and they'd give me the medicine that the doctor in the strip mall a hundred yards down the block prescribed for my occasional flare-ups of Swimmer's Ear.
I like this country, and I like living in it. I think we could stand to have a touch more in the separation of church and state -- churches should make their own laws to govern their own people, and not try to impose the restrictions on everyone else -- if I make a religious boo-boo, my coven leader will take me aside and tell me what I screwed up and this is why I will be doing or not doing this -- and I will either bitch and whine and moan or submit gracefully -- but I do not expect the rest of the country to have the specific laws that I must follow forced upon them. There's a problem with majority consent in some cases, when the minority doesn't end up voting, or when the majority has more money and better lawyers.
But I digress.
I like this country. I could say that I love it, even. It's the country I was born in, and it's most likely the country I'll end up living in for the vast majority of my life. I believe that the people should be ruled by the people, for the people; I believe in freedom of speech, in damn near all the things the Framers of the Constitution believed in.
I don't wear a flag on my sleeve because that's not my way. Just because a disaster has occurred in my country, that's no reason for me to change the way I feel, or the way I act and dress.
Yes, I talk to people more. Yes, I tell them that I love them more. I am friendlier on the telephone at work, usually making the day of people I talk to just that little bit much brighter. (If someone calls, and it's Joan from Research International, say, "Is that you, Azure Lunatic? I'm ...... from Livejournal." Even if you don't want to do the survey, I'll still be happy to hear from you...)
I don't wear a flag on my sleeve because I try to be a symbol myself for freedom. I'm not a billboard. I wear all black -- the night, mourning, a blank slate -- and I dare anyone else to tell me that I'm not a "real" American because I don't spout the buzzwords of the moment.
I don't wear a flag because I don't feel that it's necessary. I don't wear red white and blue because I don't usually wear it. I will wear red white and blue nail polish -- I will wear a tiny beaded flag pin -- but I prefer to speak with my actions, not the logo stenciled across my forehead. No matter in Whose name, the deeds are the same. And it is those deeds, and the way you feel in your heart, that truly matters in the end.
I don't think I'd be very happy living in any other country. I like the country I grew up in too much to do that. I like the way I think I can make a difference by voting or yammering at the people in office, I like the way I could try and run for office if I wanted to do something, I like the way we actually have a legal system that can be changed and fought and hammered on. I don't like the way that sometimes innocent people get caught in the crossfire between the law and those outside of the law, and I don't like the way that sometimes some laws are ass-dumb, but I like the way that I don't get shot out of hand for saying "Hey, this needs changing."
The health care system sucks. My country could stand to rise up on that issue -- hell, I'd give up 5% more of my income to never have to worry about finding a doctor that takes my insurance provider again, if I could just go in to the nearest pharmacy and give them my social security number and they'd give me the medicine that the doctor in the strip mall a hundred yards down the block prescribed for my occasional flare-ups of Swimmer's Ear.
I like this country, and I like living in it. I think we could stand to have a touch more in the separation of church and state -- churches should make their own laws to govern their own people, and not try to impose the restrictions on everyone else -- if I make a religious boo-boo, my coven leader will take me aside and tell me what I screwed up and this is why I will be doing or not doing this -- and I will either bitch and whine and moan or submit gracefully -- but I do not expect the rest of the country to have the specific laws that I must follow forced upon them. There's a problem with majority consent in some cases, when the minority doesn't end up voting, or when the majority has more money and better lawyers.
But I digress.
I like this country. I could say that I love it, even. It's the country I was born in, and it's most likely the country I'll end up living in for the vast majority of my life. I believe that the people should be ruled by the people, for the people; I believe in freedom of speech, in damn near all the things the Framers of the Constitution believed in.
I don't wear a flag on my sleeve because that's not my way. Just because a disaster has occurred in my country, that's no reason for me to change the way I feel, or the way I act and dress.
Yes, I talk to people more. Yes, I tell them that I love them more. I am friendlier on the telephone at work, usually making the day of people I talk to just that little bit much brighter. (If someone calls, and it's Joan from Research International, say, "Is that you, Azure Lunatic? I'm ...... from Livejournal." Even if you don't want to do the survey, I'll still be happy to hear from you...)
I don't wear a flag on my sleeve because I try to be a symbol myself for freedom. I'm not a billboard. I wear all black -- the night, mourning, a blank slate -- and I dare anyone else to tell me that I'm not a "real" American because I don't spout the buzzwords of the moment.
I don't wear a flag because I don't feel that it's necessary. I don't wear red white and blue because I don't usually wear it. I will wear red white and blue nail polish -- I will wear a tiny beaded flag pin -- but I prefer to speak with my actions, not the logo stenciled across my forehead. No matter in Whose name, the deeds are the same. And it is those deeds, and the way you feel in your heart, that truly matters in the end.
Exactly
Every day is the time to be patriotic.
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Whoa...
I'm always talking out my ass about stuff just to be able to debate and argue about it.
Generally the people that *do* know about it tell me I don't know what I'm talking about.
Then they unwittingly instruct me and give me fuel to use against them.
MUAHAHAHAHAHHAHA
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I love debate.
Especially debate that uses facts instead of "you're stupid"
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