i got this far and knew i had to post it;

Do you ever feel like an alien in your own country? I used to love the flag. Would sing the Anthem at the top of my lungs at football games while I got cold chills up and down my back. Pride, man. I was so proud of my country. Then I started to read things that changed all that, and recognized the import of things already read. ‘My’ country, the Constitutional Republic followed by the CSA, was conquered and occupied by a foreign army. Still is occupied … by criminals, traitors, and collectivists. I recognized that the country in which I live is not the shinning city on a hill, but a corrupt, decadent, and depraved empire that cares not at all for its own people. It cannot in any way be considered a ‘nation’ since it has no single language, culture, religion, race, or defensible borders. It is the very antithesis of ‘united’.

I used to believe in democracy. I worked diligently in the Grand Old Party to advance free enterprise, limited government, and a strong national defense (not wars of empire). I was a county GOP chairman, a paid field representative in a US Senate campaign, volunteer in numerous campaigns, and faithful voter and cheerleader. Then ‘W’ came on the scene and with a Republican Congress and Senate grew the size of government more than any other administration in American history up to that point, lied us into wars, and gave us a Patriot Act that put the Bill of Rights on life support. Further experience taught me that the GOP was worse than the Democrats. At least the Dems told you what they were going to do. The GOP just stuck the shive in your back and behaves as little more than a speed bump to the destruction of all things good, and beautiful, and true. Turns out the powers that be select the nominees of both parties. Heads they win, tails you lose. Even if we were allowed free and fair elections (we’re not, obviously, reference 2020) 50.1% of imbeciles could/do rule the country. So much for our ‘democracy’. It’s been many years since I voted in Federal elections. Pointless, and it only encourages them.........read more.........