ext_347354 ([identity profile] malakh-abaddon.livejournal.com) wrote in [community profile] talkpolitics 2011-07-14 10:52 pm (UTC)

George Carlin said it best.

"I saw a slogan on a guys car that said "Proud to be an American" and I thought "What the fuck does that mean?"

I'm fully Irish, and when I was a kid I would go to the St Patrick's Day parade and they sold a button that said "Proud to be Irish", but I knew that on Columbus day they sold the same button only it said "Proud to be Italian", then came Black Pride, and Puerto Rican Pride. And I could never understand national or ethnic pride, because to me Pride should be reserved for something you achieve on your own.

Being Irish isn't a skill, it's a fucking genetic accident.
You wouldn't be proud to be 5'11". You wouldn't be proud to have a pre-disposition for colon cancer."

But I will agree that we are in a class war, and the poor/lower middle class are in the cross-hairs. The sad fact is, only the poor and middle class are willing/wanting the problem to be solved.

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