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Connie Overstreet's avatar

I don't know when I lost my idealistic view of the US. Maybe in my 20's (the 1980s) when I became aware of the atrocities committed in Vietnam. Or when I accepted that the US civil war wasn't about States Rights, like I had been told my my HS history books, but about the right to enslave humans. Certainly by my 40s (2000s) when I moved to the UK with my British (now ex) husband. I could see the US as a place I loved, but also as a bully. A place that over and over holds other countries to a higher standard than it actually manages itself. Today, at the age of at 62, I am ashamed of my country. I am embarrassed when I meet a new person and they figure out I'm American and I always bring up how opposed to the current regime I am. The US could do, and has done, so much good in the world but that's gone. Will it ever be back, or are we witnessing the end of democracy in the US?

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Jean Lakin's avatar

This is what it means to be woke!

Outside our self centered view. Working daily towards being all things to ALL people.

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