Oh man, I'm going crazy. Just saw that debate of the different Republican candidates, and I really need to calm down. So I came here to vent my utter bewilderment (and possibly make myself ridiculous, but ugh.)
People booing at a soldier, because he's gay? People shouting 'let him die' when hearing from a sick guy who's got no health insurance, and none of the candidates tell them to shut it?
Please, take to the streets, good people of America. Make it a happy, loud, proud, colourful thing for your country. Just as when Obama rallied.
Just in case you wanna butcher me now for any alledged arrogance. I do like the United States. I've had great times there, funny, open, loving people, true humanists. A lot to learn from them! I sang 'this land is your land, this land is my land, from California, to the New Y.........' with them in a folk singing gathering in Massachusetts. I ate the best fucking burgers ( but also the worst :P ), had great philosophical nocturnal talks with people from all continents' origin on a beach with myriads of baby squids glowing in the deep dark sea (when you swam through them). I hiked down the Havasu Canyon in Arizona, drove down the Strip in Las Vegas with Madonna's then latest album on full blast, attended one of my best concerts in New Orleans (Eliades Ochoa) and loved the three months I lived in New York City back in 1996 so so much. And there is so much wonderful art coming from the US!!! It's a lovely country, but also with great problems, I know.
Take that crazy, vulgar homophobia. It's outrageous. Almost nothing is perfect in Germany too, but we got a gay foreign secretary ( who is a lousy foreign secratary really, but not because he's queer, for god's sake) and the gay mayor of Berlin just got reelected and celebrated that with his husband on the telly. Nobody cares about them being gay. It's just not an issue. Homophobes just don't have a noteworthy lobby anymore, fortunately.
If we had as many people like your fundamentalists as you have, I'd so take my anger to the street. But I'd try to make it as happy and colourful and proud a countermovement as possible. Revamp this song
[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wxiMrvDbq3s]Woody Guthrie- This Land Is Your Land - YouTube[/ame]
as it's hymn. A land, for black, gay, atheist, jewish, catholic, indian, transsexual, chinese, japanese, dutch, hetero, italian...oh well, you know what I mean. I know that this bears a lot of difficulties. But there are many, who give their best to make it happen anyway. They are the ones, who should take to the street.
Btw. my three cousins that I got in the US told me, that they are so used to this sort of crazy thinking, that they don't fully realise just how crazy it is. Sometimes it may be good, to hear somebody foreign talk about it.
I'm really scared I'm gonna be mistaken again, so I guess I'm too coward to log in for quite a while. Sorry for being so emo. Though emo isn't necessarily bad or ridiculous, is it?