American Pie

As a child, I loved my country. I was so proud to stand and pledge allegiance to the flag. I was a Brownie. My grandfather was a war hero from World War 2. My father was in Vietnam. I thought wow, how lucky are we to be here, in this place of opportunity! With ignorance comes bliss, with age comes knowledge. The holidays people celebrate with families I deny myself from getting into . It all seems surreal to symbolize the death of a wonderful man as a joyous occasion. Thanksgiving? What did we give the Natives of our nation besides disease some crappy land and gunpowder? We spread "democracy" all over the world, yet we do not even practice it as a nation. We want to cover up nature with a tshirt and humiliate women for breastfeeding. We want you to eat genetically modified vegetables and can throw you in jail for growing vegetables or raising chickens without torturing them. We deny the endangered species list but want to own a boa constrictor to be the different person in the community at least until it grows to large and then we dump it in the Everglades. What is wrong with us? We know what we need to do to make changes in the country yet we deny the chance to start locally! I have given up hope for our nation where I actually had it with Obama. I do not know who to vote for anymore. Noone inspires me, everyone says the same calculated bullshit on a teleprompter. Go have a piece of pie and watch American Idol cause that is all that's left of our integrity.