I'm Afraid of Americans

I got talking to a friend of mine a few months ago about things we've gotten used to living here in the United States.

Middle aged suicides are up, junkies and perverts abound. Everyone we know is at the very least neurotic. Why?

My hypothesis is that we as a nation are the dregs of other continents. The only reason any of our ancestors came here is because they couldn't make it in Europe or Africa or Asia. Sure, how are you going to make it in the middle of wars and political upheaval: I'm not denying those things were a strong prelude to most of my relatives fleeing Alsace-Lorraine and Northern Italy.

However, the New World was a dumping ground for the mentally ill. Recent statistics show that most prisoners suffer from some variant of mental illness. The entire state of Georgia was a penal colony: Atlanta holds the Olympics and some one sets them up the bomb. This didn't happen in Lake Placid. Look at the law that makes corporations people, and then see those "people" behave like sociopaths: they will do anything to make a buck, without regard to morals or fairness.

There is a phrase in America that gets tossed out in the childrearing arena so often it's almost a caricature of itself:
Snotty 13 year old denied a Wii: But it's not fair. Billy's parents bought him a Wii and he gets C's.
Exasperated parent: Well, you know what kid? Life's not fair.

True enough. But how often does that statement get drilled into kid's head in Somalia? They can obviously look around and see that life is very unfair. But we as Americans are supposed to be different.

The ultimate protection from the unfairness of all our mental illnesses, whether it be as unintentional as ignorance or as mean-spirited as sociopathy, is our Constitution. Anyone that would dare to say civil liberties and/or the Constitution is "just a piece of paper" or that we have to be prepared to protect ourselves is too mentally ill to hold office.

Keep that in mind when you go to vote next year. Don't support a member of a party that would even utter that or act that way. Acceptance of any of it is un-American.