Shameful Behavior

If you were to ask people around the world what they felt about their home countries one of the first things they would tell you most often was they took pride in being a citizen of that country but if you were to ask me I would tell you that I am ashamed to be an American citizen. I am not ashamed to be an american because I hate America or anything like that on the contrary I love America and what she stands for however I despise the growing movement of extremism in the country and the complacency of people who tolerate such a dangerous sickness. These extremist people have descended upon the country igniting flames of animosity in people’s hearts, fueling them with lies and fanning them with fear wherever they appear.

When I see people carrying signs equating President Barak Obama to Adolf Hitler, or saying that Democrats are Nazis, Fascist, Socialist, or Marxist it makes my heart scream out in horrific pain at the sight of such disrespect. These people see the suffering, fear starvation, torture, death, slavery and reproductive sterilization of millions of Jews, Gays, Romani,mentally and physically impaired individuals as fuel for their flames of animosity and they also see the suffering of millions of innocent Allied and Axis men, women and children and death and suffering of millions of allied troops as nothing but fuel as well. I am blessed not to have known first hand the plague of sorrow, death and destruction the second great war brought to the world but I have read and listened all my life to many tell of the great darkness and when I do I cry as that is the only way to release the pain. So when I see these ignorant, selfish, uncaring, extremist pollute the very air with their propaganda my heart is plunged into a chaos where all I can feel is the icy tallons of sorrow and the blazing fires of wrath ripping at my heart.

Now while America is certainly stricken with such a virulent plague of extremism that alone is not enough to cause me to feel shame for being an American, as those people only represent a minority of how American’s feel however there is another venomous plague this one though is a plague of unrighteous tolerance. So many Americans faithful to their arrogance and ignorance believe that if extremist beliefs do not cause them harm that those beliefs will never pose danger to them so they never stand up to the extremist beliefs which is the behavior of fools. Extremism is like a lich’s army if you ignore it then it shall quickly bring forth pestilence, animosity, sorrow, suffering and death however if you stand against it then it shall bear little fruit of destruction.

So it is the two plagues working in tandem which causes me to feel ashamed to be an American. I believe that those millions who suffered, and/or died during the time of the great war deserve to be treated with the same respect we show ourselves not disrespect by being used as pawns to manipulate others in an attempt to sway the representative of the American government to side with them so that their fragile beliefs are protected. I hope that one day America will become the beacon of hope it once was by walking away from extremism.