I admit I swallowed the jingoist pill in the early 2000s - to my credit, I was a child, and not particularly the most insightful one - but when everybody dropped the pretense that invading Iraq was under anything but made-up reasons around 2006 everything started to fall away but I still had some hope in the Democratic party. This, of course, was quickly crushed when my friends' families couldn't afford their mortgages after the 2008 crash and Obama refused to arrest any of the bankers who caused it.
Most people did so I wouldn't beat yourself up too much. I was the one dipshit in my school who wasn't all "Lets go kill em all!!!" and thought the invasion was a really stupid idea. Not because I was a good person or a leftist mind you, but because I was a big enough history nerd and war buff to know it was a really terrible choice for imperial expansion; there were so many better non while people to invade and kill.
I admit I swallowed the jingoist pill in the early 2000s - to my credit, I was a child, and not particularly the most insightful one
Yeah, I went through a "Why would anybody do this to America" phase, much like people around me. My age was a single digit at the time, but the adults had no fucking excuse.
I admit I swallowed the jingoist pill in the early 2000s - to my credit, I was a child, and not particularly the most insightful one - but when everybody dropped the pretense that invading Iraq was under anything but made-up reasons around 2006 everything started to fall away but I still had some hope in the Democratic party. This, of course, was quickly crushed when my friends' families couldn't afford their mortgages after the 2008 crash and Obama refused to arrest any of the bankers who caused it.
Most people did so I wouldn't beat yourself up too much. I was the one dipshit in my school who wasn't all "Lets go kill em all!!!" and thought the invasion was a really stupid idea. Not because I was a good person or a leftist mind you, but because I was a big enough history nerd and war buff to know it was a really terrible choice for imperial expansion; there were so many better non while people to invade and kill.
Yeah, I went through a "Why would anybody do this to America" phase, much like people around me. My age was a single digit at the time, but the adults had no fucking excuse.