Day Thirty-One: On being American

Okay, so there is annoyed and there is annoyed. And yesterday? Yesterday I was annoyed.

Basically, what happened was a certain person on my facebook friends list sent out a message that started with "ok i known not all americans are stupid and hicks but a good few are lol"

(I will not comment on the atrocious grammar or the use of lol. I will not. I. will. not.)

This friend went on to ask for input from Americans on his status message which was actually a YouTube clip from the Tea Party march on Washington, D.C. The clip itself is extremely one-sided, focusing only on those people who were not prepared to speak. Then this friend went on to comment on how Americans need Canadian and British input because we're so idiotic.

And so, I got mad. I got really, really angry and so I did the thing which I hate. I did the passive-aggressive thing. So, for that, I apologize.

However.

I was just as annoyed yesterday as I am now.

There are a lot of things wrong with this country but the ability to disagree with the government; the ability to voice that disagreement in as intellectual or idiotic a way as you see fit? That is not one of them.