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CMV: I'm becoming reluctantly anti-American...

And **I am** American.....


I guess this election is just the icing on the cake to several aspects, traits, and actions taken by this country that I have the vehemently disagreed with over the last few years. And not only disagreed with - but flat-out feel disgusted with.

I'm sick and tired of -

1) Global hegemony; i.e being in the world's policeman, getting involved in new Wars every several years, destabilising other countries, supporting geopolitical & economic exploitation of third world countries via occupation and installing puppet dictatorships. Thus creating vacuums and a generation of civilians that hate us for killing their families and ruining their country 

2)  That everything domestically is treated like a business instead of essential public needs for well being and growth - I.e. education and healthcare. Our failing school systems below the college level. Ranking below what we should rank in Math, Science, English, and test scores - further behind other countries in the world. The millions and millions of young people with promising intellect are going to be leaving their universities with crushing debt that stifles growth and innovation and leaves them in economically disadvantageous situations at such a young age.

3) How every other week it seems like there's a mass shooting going on. ( I'm not calling for gun control, just saying). 

4) How everyone and everything in this country just seems so polarized that nothing can get done in Congress and in government. How people are just so divided over just about everything.

5) How the culture of political correctness on the Left & outright bigotry and neo-fascist sympathy in fringe groups on the Right are swallowing us.

6) How our justice system is institutionally racist against minorities, particularly young African-Americans, where said demographic gets persecuted for same level of offense is done by their white counterparts. (I'm a Criminologist who studies this. It **is** disproportionate).

7) How we have a grotesque prison system that incarcerates more people than any other nation in the world and how set system focuses more on punishment than Rehabilitation and reintegration of redeemable prisoners into society.

8) How we have such a Roman-style glorification of the military and how Noble it is to join said Force. It's just pure propaganda, where young men are led to believe they are fighting for our personal Liberties and Freedoms - when they are really fighting for the protection of corporate power.

9) A warpes sense of patriotism that is shoved down our throats at sporting events during the national anthem - as if some kind of bizarre ritual.

10) How our individual liberties are being curtailed in the name of "counter terrorism" thru programming like the Patriot Act, the NSA, and other forms of spying on its own citizens at home and abroad. And even our allies.

11) How we have one presidential candidate this year who is such a corrupted, corporate, convictionless shill - & the other a bombastic, ignorant, narcissistic, loudmouth who is running on a platform of fear and anger and is overall bringing out the very worst in us as a people 

12)  The idea that we are "exceptional" and how that belief has been abused to allow us to get away with the worst of crimes internationally, and how every major power that came before us believed they were exceptional at the door and how those same Powers were wrong before their eminent collapse/reduced role in the World.

All in all, I'm just tired of this place..... I'm tired of living in a culture of fear......of being under the scope of filtered, propagandistic news media.......the ignorance of people in this country.....the econonic and racial divisions.

I'm tired of being American.

And not only that... I find myself increasingly disgusted and hostile towards it all.

I want to get out of here.
gpt
No particular ideology is inherently "American". If you live in America, then whatever you believe is "American" by definition. No one owns that term. The notion of some ideology being "anti-American" is simply propaganda which is great for rallying your side of an argument against the other side, regardless of what it is. It's a statement with no substance, only fluff.

You are not becoming "Anti-American". You're just American.