Many Americans, especially on the Right, are extremely proud of their nationality and citizenship. But this country and its government do so many awful things so often that such pride requires a lot of cognitive dissonance.
Why Are You Proud To Be An American?
Ted Rall
Ted Rall is a syndicated political cartoonist for Andrews McMeel Syndication and WhoWhatWhy.org and Counterpoint. He is a contributor to Centerclip and co-host of "The TMI Show" talk show. He is a graphic novelist and author of many books of art and prose, and an occasional war correspondent. He is, recently, the author of the graphic novel "2024: Revisited."
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The only valid (if self-avowed) exceptionality of America is the vast abyss between what it loudly & smugly proclaims itself to be … as opposed to the grim reality of its abject, corrupt, vicious global criminality.
I love the American west coast. I love the big wide open spaces, the people that think their little startup with 3 people is going to change the world (none of my friend have succeeded with a startup yet but they keep trying). I love the food, all of it, our version of food from all over the world. I love our music from country to hip-hop to punk. I love our mountains. I love our cars. Old school muscle cars in particular, but Tesla are cool, and you can’t beat a classic F150 from the 1990s. I love NASA and everything it does. I love the idea of a union of states. I’ve never read to constitution bit its cool that we has worked for 250 years. We got modern democracy first. Thats cool.
I dont know what MAGA people love about America. All they do is bitch about it, and they seem hell bent on destroying our culture and history right down to the whitehouse.
I honestly would not be surprised if I woke up tomorrow and Trump was bulldozing Arlington National Cemetery and replacing it with a giant gold statue of himself. Thats how much mMAGA hates real America
Originally, a hero was defined as the individual who, through their own actions, turned the tide of the struggle. Odysseus blinds Polyphemus? Hurray. Wait, I just got this very tersely worded telegram from the Cyclopean Union. Oh, dear. …
Japan has sushi, anime, a culture predicated on order and respect for law and rules. You can buy beer in the vending machines. … What’s that? They’re also very racist and had Unit 731 in WWII?
As one of my old bosses who came to this country from another said to me one day, “The United States is a pretty good country. There’s room for improvement, but it’s pretty good.” Sure, we’ve got Trump. We also had Reagan wiping his ass on the Constitution, the former head of the CIA being elected right after him, then we had the philanderer who sold the whole middle class down the river. Then came President Cheney, who worked himself nearly to death to make Halliburton richer and start us down a 20-year quagmire. Obama was also a disappointment, unless you were a banker or a healthcare CEO or had the jumpsuit concession at Gitmo. And let’s not forget, um, Biden.
Or maybe we should. he certainly has.