When you follow blindly, you can't see the detrimental harm you're causing those trying to help correct you on your path. Someone ought to have said that at some point. I'm ashamed to be an Iowan tonight. I'm ashamed to be an American tonight. I'm ashamed to live in a country that is so ignorant and easily manipulated. What happened tonight is in contempt to the American government system. To vote out three Supreme Court Justices for DOING THEIR JOBS is absolutely and positively incorrigible. Incorrigible means hopelessly bad. And the fact that I think I have to explain that in such simple terms? Incorrigible (definition: not corrigible; bad beyond correction or reform). I can't believe how stupid and I mean absolutely positively stupid most people in this country seem to be. Do you have any idea what it is you're voting for? Who you're affecting? Whose lives you could be harming beyond repair? Do you take the time out of your "busy" lives to think that maybe everything you hear isn't right? Maybe two years isn't enough time to fix a country that was horribly tattered and damaged. Maybe your stupid bias are as unfounded as your completely random beliefs and points of view that appear to come off the top of your head. Maybe you should take the time to learn the facts about things before jumping, and I mean giant leaps, to unfounded conclusions. As of right now, this country is incorrigible. I don't know if it will ever get better. I'd like to leave it, but I'm afraid if all the sensible people leave there will only be those stupid members of the majority to push the last nails into the nearly finished coffin of a once great nation.
It's hard to remain hopeful when you see the true nature of the majority of humans. Selfish. Hypocritical. Ignorant. And it doesn't matter to most of them. They'll continue on in their ignorance, completely unaware of the harm they're causing, the joy they're missing. The lives they're destroying.
Stop and think. Always think. Think for yourself. Think for your neighbors and loved ones. Think of every possibility as valid until you come to understand the only thing you should rely on are facts and truths. Not your pastor. Not Glenn f***ing Beck. Not your parents. Listen to the people who actually know what they're saying and have real, not biased, facts to back it up. Though this will get nowhere despite how strongly I feel this, I'm sure something will have to give someday. Karma has to come around to help those who are suffering.
People are stupid. If you don't want to be considered stupid you should probably start using your brain instead of blindly following people you think are using theirs, when they're blindly following someone who sees the world through extremely skewed views.
I am disturbed and disgusted tonight. I have lost most of my already diminishing faith in humanity.
For fear of saying something I'll regret later on, I'm just going to say this. I too am very upset about this result. Its not fair that people can vote on things that aren't going to even affect them at all.
ReplyDeleteSaying something you'll regret later on...?
ReplyDeleteI was having a hard time keeping all my cuss words in my head and not typed. :) Besides, my parents are also conservative. They're probably pretty pleased with the results. You've no idea how much I'm going to enjoy being at college away from them.
ReplyDeleteHey. I censored mine but didn't exclude it...Haha. I have trouble with that too...
ReplyDeleteAnyway, I want to tell you why you shouldn't go to a small college: Many of the people there will probably be similar to, say...Our friends? (I don't exactly mean offense to them...) At least, that's what I'd expect. Perfectly nice, but conservative. And stubborn and unaware of their own ignorance. That's most of the reason I'm not even looking into small colleges...
To make you feel better: My dad is conservative. He likes (psychopaths like) Glenn Beck. We don't get along where it really counts. My siblings and I were plotting to take over the world after it happened though. Yep...So they're cool. And my mom repeatedly said she was embarrassed and the justices being removed was "the worst part." Even though Branstad is terrible by himself...So then I felt better. But my dad is irrationally conservative. So that's blah.
Yeah, those are some valid points for a small college. I think I'm just going to have to weigh all the pros and cons before I make my decision though. I'd get a lot more one on one attention with professors at a smaller college. But you're right, I'm sure I'd get quite a few people who were like our friends.
ReplyDeleteSome days I wish my parents had just taken me to church like everybody else. Taught me not to think for myself. Then I could just be brainwashed and fit in with the people at school. I could just sink into my own ignorance. Some days I just think that would make life easier.
The thing about that whole your parents taking you to church thing...You're talking someone who was made to go to church for a good portion of her life, as well as "Religious Ed." I was raised Catholic, I guess, but clearly not very well, since my brother, sister and I all seem to have similar views on religion. But I even got confirmed into the Catholic church, so...There's always that risk of developing thoughts of your own, even if you're raised religiously... :)
ReplyDeleteI'm guessing the difference for me was the upbringing I've had...And the Internets. I was an avid user by ten. ;)
But really, I get where you're coming from. ("Ignorance is bliss"?) Think of all the painful reality you'd be missing, though. Also, it might make life easier for you, but think about how irritating you'd be to people like me or you in reality. So, easier yes, but I wouldn't want the give back the things I've learned just to be happier, you know?