I have been quiet for a few weeks.  I have not been quite, really because I have been banned from facebook, twice.  I have been blocked by a 20+ year friend and an about 7-year friend.  All in the past week, I think I lost a couple more I don't care about.  We have had a rough few weeks.
It has been rough for me too.  You now what pisses me off more than anything?  I see my country at a stand still.  We have always progressed.  In all my life we have progressed.In all my history classes, even in elementary school, there was some progress.In college, I learned about more progress.
What do I see now?  No progress.  People are fighting about ridiculous bullshit.  World war 2 brought us together when we were divided.  Hell VIETNAM brought us together.  Vietnam era brought us progress.  Ronald Reagan brought us progress.  What the hell has happened since?  The fucking internet?  Some BS health care?  Come on, we got nothing in the crown jewel of the past decade.
What have we done?  Nothing.  Not built bridges, not built societies.  After world war 2 we rebuilt Germany and built a great society.  What the fuck have we done for Iraq?  We told them we freed them, now it is their problem.  Last week, An American still died in Afghanistan.  Was he building anything when he died?  No, he was murdered in a forgotten war.
What the hell are we doing to ourselves?  We used to have wars for great reasons, and after we built great places.  Now we abandon them.  Why?  We can't even fix our own bridges, how can we repair those we damaged?
Now we are about to elect two complete asshats, one who does not know what secret clearance is, and another who needs it revoked.  We are in a country that can not admit its own problems, let alone solve others.  We have a police force that tries to claim that we need to give them the benefit of the doubt, just in case the cameras lie, but we need to assume the criminal needed to be murdered because the camera may lie?  How the fuck is a trained professional given the benefit of the doubt but a random dude with a gun in his face being told he is about to die nigger should not?
What the hell is wrong with our country?  We used to build nations, now we can't maintain our own.  But we are supposed to be some authority?  What the fuck happened to us?  We never were really great, but I remember when I was a kid, when we at least tried to be.