Bullshit

I'm calling bullshit on anyone who out of one side of their mouth acts horrified at "the state of our country" and out of the other not only does zero to change it, but manages to do quite well by it.

Why do so many people doing fine and dandy incessantly whine about the "direction of the country?" What does that even mean? Are they talking about simply the War in Iraq? Is that really it when it comes down to it? Are people just sad because we came to realize on 9/11 that we're actually not the cool, popular kids we thought we were, but rather are the popular kids that everyone else hates?

Gimme a break. When did we become such whiny brats? We're doing better now than in almost any time in our own fractured history and certainly doing better than almost any nation in the history of the planet and all we can do is lament it. I'm serious. What point to does one want to point to in our history when we were better off? World War II. Are you kidding me? Maybe we were in the right, but we were in the fight of our lives, a fight that we certainly did not know could be won the way it was. The 1950s? Where we lived in a racially segregated society? In the 1960s when were were in an unpopular war and socially divided? What place and time in history is preferred? What would you prefer today? Would things be all that different if John Kerry or Al Gore were President. Come on, grow up.