From my Writing Room
Copyright © 2023 by Uwe Bahr

A missed penalty kick and an inappropriate smile – already some blinded American “patriots” are gasping for breath. Instead of blue hair and woke policies they should think and name what makes them so proud of their country.

The storming of the Capitol by a mindless, antisocial horde, making the U.S. look like a third world country?

A proud military running from medieval warriors in sandals in Afghanistan – in a country where no U.S. soldier has any business being?

Proud of an inhumane “health care system” that leaves out millions of Americans because insurance companies and pharmaceutical corporations have to line their own pockets with billions in profit?

Proud of a country that is considered the richest in the world, but where there are hundreds of thousands of children who are categorized as disadvantaged and do not get three meals a day?

A country where more than two-thirds of all so-called “Christians” voted for a pervert like Trump?

A country where racial discrimination and the discrimination of dissenters are the order of the day?

A country where usury and profit for the benefit of the few count more than the common good?

Proud of a country where children can’t go to school without fear because of an insane gun culture in the most Christian of all countries?

Proud of a country that maintains military bases in more than 100 countries under the pretext of being the world’s policeman for democracy and freedom, only to interfere wherever expansionist US interests are threatened?

But the missed penalty kick of an American soccer player who has led her country to so much success in previous events becomes a troubling factor in a lost person’s damaged psyche for a perceived would-be patriotism. That says it all.

It is voices of ignorance like the one below that are dividing the United States of America, contributing to unrest and creating a dangerous atmosphere: