we opened up editorials to our writers... wanting it to be about 'anything'
all but one person made it political. this is the one i was going to post on monday. but i'm not. i have issues with it and don't feel comfortable with it on my site.
am i bad?
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I live here, but I dont really live anywhere
Because of Toledo by The Blue Nile
As a transplanted New Yorker living in Denmark, Ive slowly come to realize how my own American-ness has faded substantially over the past two years of living abroad. Its not likely that Ill ever become a Dane, so that leaves me dangling somewhere over the middle of the Atlantic ocean, like a man without a country. Its not something that worries me terribly or keeps me awake at night, but it is a strange feeling to recognize that what you believed to be a substantial part of your identity is no longer there. Everybody needs to belong to something after all, even if it is a sham.
This lack of American nationalism on my part has its roots in the fact that I am more apt to describe myself as a Northeasterner or New Yorker rather than as an American. Whenever someone asks me where I come from, I instinctively reply, New York. New York is where I was born and raised. Its my state, my home, and always will be, regardless of whether or not I ever return to live there again. This way of thinking is nothing new. Before the Civil War, most people talked of their state as their country. In the aftermath of the Civil War, in order to bring about a national unity between the North and South, this myth of harmony and union was forced onto the national psyche.
America has always been a divided land. One look at the Electoral College map from the last Presidential election shows just how polarized it continues to be. Theres that conservative block of Red Republican states in the center of the country, basically running north to south, and the alliance of Blue Democratic states in the Northeast, Upper Midwest and West Coast. Perhaps its time now to finally debunk the myth of national unity and just call it a day. The United States of America has ceased to function effectively as a nation. There is a social, cultural and religious gap between the Reds and the Blues that is ever-widening and seemingly unbridgeable, and its too late for any form of compromise. Lets just admit it already; we need two countries.
We had a good run as a nation, but even the Roman and British Empires fell eventually. Dont be sad about it, let it free you. If youre a Blue American, think of how nice it will be to have free elections that are actually credible and a separation of Church and State. If youre of the Red persuasion, you will now be free to ask yourselves, What would Jesus do? while wildly flagellating yourselves with the bible. Well, okay, for the Reds itll be business as usual. If we just follow my lead, everyone will be happy, and we wont have to perform this national charade anymore.
The reason why the country should be split in two is in fact quite simple. There is one half of the country (The Reds) that is completely dismissive and disrespectful of the other half (The Blues), and will stop at nothing to impose its warped beliefs on us. As a Blue American and a true Northeastern liberal, I think a gesture as huge as seceding from this unholy union is the only rational response to consider. Its time to stop pandering to the religious conservatives and shout a collective FUCK YOU! to them instead. The Reds would be free to outlaw abortion and print the Ten Commandments on everything from cereal boxes to toilet paper, and we would be free to laugh at them without having to listen to their pathetic whining all the time. Of course, they wont have any jobs or money for food because their economy would be forever in the crapper, but they can always eat their bibles and use their hatred to keep them warm.
One last thing; since 9/11 happened on New York soil, its ours. It never was yours, you Reds, so you can all stop pretending you care about us now. Ill have to ask you to stop exploiting it and all the families of the victims to justify your dirty politics once our divorce becomes final. Naturally, youll be free to invade other countries as usual, but now you can just call it a Holy War!! No more need for those pesky facts or evidence!!
Im sure Fox News Network already has those graphics ready. Maybe Fox could turn the whole divorce process into a brand new reality TV program. Someone get me Rupert Murdochs phone number
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go ahead and tell me here
all but one person made it political. this is the one i was going to post on monday. but i'm not. i have issues with it and don't feel comfortable with it on my site.
am i bad?
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I live here, but I dont really live anywhere
Because of Toledo by The Blue Nile
As a transplanted New Yorker living in Denmark, Ive slowly come to realize how my own American-ness has faded substantially over the past two years of living abroad. Its not likely that Ill ever become a Dane, so that leaves me dangling somewhere over the middle of the Atlantic ocean, like a man without a country. Its not something that worries me terribly or keeps me awake at night, but it is a strange feeling to recognize that what you believed to be a substantial part of your identity is no longer there. Everybody needs to belong to something after all, even if it is a sham.
This lack of American nationalism on my part has its roots in the fact that I am more apt to describe myself as a Northeasterner or New Yorker rather than as an American. Whenever someone asks me where I come from, I instinctively reply, New York. New York is where I was born and raised. Its my state, my home, and always will be, regardless of whether or not I ever return to live there again. This way of thinking is nothing new. Before the Civil War, most people talked of their state as their country. In the aftermath of the Civil War, in order to bring about a national unity between the North and South, this myth of harmony and union was forced onto the national psyche.
America has always been a divided land. One look at the Electoral College map from the last Presidential election shows just how polarized it continues to be. Theres that conservative block of Red Republican states in the center of the country, basically running north to south, and the alliance of Blue Democratic states in the Northeast, Upper Midwest and West Coast. Perhaps its time now to finally debunk the myth of national unity and just call it a day. The United States of America has ceased to function effectively as a nation. There is a social, cultural and religious gap between the Reds and the Blues that is ever-widening and seemingly unbridgeable, and its too late for any form of compromise. Lets just admit it already; we need two countries.
We had a good run as a nation, but even the Roman and British Empires fell eventually. Dont be sad about it, let it free you. If youre a Blue American, think of how nice it will be to have free elections that are actually credible and a separation of Church and State. If youre of the Red persuasion, you will now be free to ask yourselves, What would Jesus do? while wildly flagellating yourselves with the bible. Well, okay, for the Reds itll be business as usual. If we just follow my lead, everyone will be happy, and we wont have to perform this national charade anymore.
The reason why the country should be split in two is in fact quite simple. There is one half of the country (The Reds) that is completely dismissive and disrespectful of the other half (The Blues), and will stop at nothing to impose its warped beliefs on us. As a Blue American and a true Northeastern liberal, I think a gesture as huge as seceding from this unholy union is the only rational response to consider. Its time to stop pandering to the religious conservatives and shout a collective FUCK YOU! to them instead. The Reds would be free to outlaw abortion and print the Ten Commandments on everything from cereal boxes to toilet paper, and we would be free to laugh at them without having to listen to their pathetic whining all the time. Of course, they wont have any jobs or money for food because their economy would be forever in the crapper, but they can always eat their bibles and use their hatred to keep them warm.
One last thing; since 9/11 happened on New York soil, its ours. It never was yours, you Reds, so you can all stop pretending you care about us now. Ill have to ask you to stop exploiting it and all the families of the victims to justify your dirty politics once our divorce becomes final. Naturally, youll be free to invade other countries as usual, but now you can just call it a Holy War!! No more need for those pesky facts or evidence!!
Im sure Fox News Network already has those graphics ready. Maybe Fox could turn the whole divorce process into a brand new reality TV program. Someone get me Rupert Murdochs phone number
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go ahead and tell me here
