questioningeverything's Journal

What is wrong with everyone?

I dont understand people's ability to ignore everything that is going on in this world, and especially this country. We live in the best country...the United States. Everyone has an opporunity unless you are from the wrong country or a women or black or poor. The edcuation system is a mess and nothing is going to change. Children are poor and without doctors or a family. Our president has committed countless impeachable acts and no one seems to care enought to actually do anything about it. He has done a great job at scaring us into believing that speaking out against him is anti-american and he has a whole party that is backing him up on that. Every week we have a new scandel surrounding him and millions are oblivious to that fact that he has to have been in on some of these. He lied to the country and is the reason Americans, not to mention thousands of Iraqis, are dead. But no one cares. I am part of the problem though. Isee all of this and stay quiet. I do little things to make my representatives and people around me aware of what is going on but I do nothing more than that. I dont want to be labeled a crazy liberal because that is not what I am. A great man once said that the greatest form of patriotism is dissent. I believe in that. We are supposed to speak out against our leaders and not be scared but listned to. We are supposed to be able to pull together and make changes happen when necessary. It has taken 4 years to have a bill truely thought about that bring our troops home, and this is a form of nearly terrorism. We are letting them win. But wait, taking the troops out doesn't mean the battle is over and we have lost. (which this war is not about winning for us but winning for the Iraqis)...The president is a servant to the people, not to his own agenda--especially when the agenda is not liked by so many. This is my call to all of you to stand up for what you believe in...whether it is in support or not for the war, for or against the president, for or against the education system. just speak up no matter who is against you..do something. it is what we are supposed to do as Americans.