Inside America

I’m glad to welcome a new contributor to this blog. Here’s her first post. I’ll translate her posts on the other side of the blog to let French readers comment as well. I’m looking forward to publishing more of your posts!

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Hello. My nickname is Virgomonkey, and my blog is over here. I have been blogging on and off for a few years now, however, recently I’ve been tackling the issue of Anti-Americanism that is very mainstream all over the world.

I was born and raised in Miami, Florida in 1968 and am unapologetically American. While I don’t apologize for being an American, I DO apologize for Bush, our government in general, the Iraqi War, Guantanamo, and Abu Ghraib. I am embarrassed by this, and admittedly, there were periods where I have been ashamed of calling myself an American. I am disgusted with our current regime, and am really hoping that that Obama is elected in 2008 as I have a feeling he will change things for the better.

We have an electoral voting system in the US that I find a bit unfair. Basically, with an electoral voting system, the electoral college vote wins – as opposed to the popular vote. With that said, the real winner of the Election 2000 Race was Al Gore! This made many Americans very angry when Bush got elected (myself included). In election 2004, Bush did genuinely win the race by 2%. This is still horrifying considering how corrupt Bush is as a president. About half of America (at that time) was brainwashed into believing that invading Iraq was preventing future terrorist attacks! Americans were fooled. As we look at the present, some Americans that were once fooled have now realized that invading Iraq was a bad idea and have stopped supporting Bush. And now Bush’s approval rating is at an all time low of 28%. Many attempts have been made to get Bush impeached, but failed.

It’s all about being brainwashed and being forced to fear the terrorists. After 9-11, we Americans were really afraid. And having been afraid led us to believe that whatever our government decided to do about it was in OUR (the people’s) best interests. But in my opinion, we should be realistic and fear them more. Why? Because I feel that America is a lot more vulnerable to future attacks now that we’ve stirred the pot in Iraq and have unsecured borders. After 2003, roughly 70% of Americans believed Bush. Again, it’s the effects of brainwashing in the media.

Being brainwashed, however, is not unique to Americans. I feel strongly that those countries that are predominantly Anti-American, are brainwashed too. Media bias exists all over the world as well as bias in grade school textbooks. And I believe that the media outlets in other countries create a distorted image of the American people. Parents are also responsible for teaching their children that American people are losers. Because of this, Americans are treated badly online by both Canadians, Australians, and Europeans. When we visit those countries, some of us are treated badly over there too.

Please don’t judge Americans as a people by the actions of our government as we have no more control over who gets elected and what our government does than any other democratic nations. I will talk about more about this in a later post.

Thank you for letting me share my feelings.