User blog comment:Some1New/A Question For My Fellow Americans/@comment-35646433-20191213035729

Oof, that's a really hard one, especially since I'm aware that I probably have different political views from the majority who use this website :/

Anyway, I'll try not to make this too political to avoid starting some sort of flamewar. Rather than specifically naming people or groups, I'll just list them using indefinite pronouns lol. I'll do a positive and a negative paragraph and you can try to interpret whatever the general meaning was, since I honestly have a lot to say and no idea how to put it simply :P

And we're starting with the negative. I would agree with Cora when she said "contradictory", although for a different reason. I hate making generalizations, but the fact of the matter is that there is absolutely no-one who is in a position of significant power in this country who actually does what they say they're going to do. I'm not going to elaborate on that other than basic, simple fact. It's come to the point where people are being called racist, horrible, haters only because of the fact that they are white (and in reality have done absolutely nothing wrong), and others are supposed to be doing their job of keeping cities clean when in reality they legalize horrible things that I wouldn't even be allowed to mention here. People are making unreasonable and irrational remarks directly against others that truly should never have been said if they wanted to actually be taken seriously, and it's come to the point where I'm honestly not sure who's "right" in this situation anymore. Political parties read way too much into every move that the opposite party makes, and it really has become a situation of "I respect all opinions, but if you support (X view), you are right, and if you don't, I hate you so don't talk to me". I absolutely despise this hypocrisy, because guess who's caught right in the middle of all this and can't make up her mind about what to even think anymore? And what's worse is the fact that if I were to say all this and name actual people and my specific opinions here, do you know what would happen? It's likely that I would lose friends, and I would be thrown to the side, only based on my political views when apparently we're all supposed to live in some sort of land of "equality" and "fairness". I'm sorry this ended up so long, but I'm honestly just done with all this.

The one thing that always made me happy about America, however, was just looking at our country's whole history from a broad spectrum without regard to the microaggressions occuring today. Sure, we experienced injustices in the past, but guess what? We overcame them. For instance, after discovering that laissez-faire capitalism brought the country to dramatically more poverty than economic welfare, we found a way to add enough regulations to make the economy much more stable while still keeping a free market. It wasn't a perfect solution, but once again -- look how far we've come. For our whole history, we've slowly made progress, and we're going to continue to make progress as time goes on. Here's the problem, however: we're not going to make progress if everyone keeps screaming at each-other, and that's always what I've hated about politics. The fact of the matter is that we're not going anywhere right now, and we literally won't unless both parties decide to cooperate. When they do, though? When we can finally find a way to all agree, as rare as that may be? Our country is innovative, our country is determined, and most importantly, we are united for once. Once we can actually become the United States of America, we would be unstoppable. As the America we are right now? No. Not with everyone who hates our country, not with everyone who hates each-other. We've shown in the past that we can eventually get together, cooperate, and make decisions. Why won't we do that again?