Speaking of someone who visited the USA over the years, it is a saddening to compare America in 1995 and America in 2017.
I first visited the USA in 1995, when I was just 11 year old. I spent a beautiful vacation which I still remember to this day in Orlando, Florida. I could not have believed myself as I went to Disney Park, Universal Studios and the never ending list of theme parks. Driving back and forth passing by waterpark after waterpark as you go from and back to the hotel.
It was the first time I was introduced to a drink other than Pepsi and Coca Cola, Dr. Pepper. As a kid I was thrown back by its amazing taste, it was slowly becoming my favorite drink in the hotel swimming pool. Sure most of Dr. Pepper drink went inside the pool to be diluted with the urine and chloride, but that drink was my everlasting reminder of how great America was. Don't be surprised by the word "was", make America Great Again imply the same notion.
Coming back from the holiday and greeted by my friends with questions like, what did you see, did you see flying cars? did people skate on hoverboards there? did you get to try a 3D cinema? It was childish questions based solely on the movies that we use to watch such as Back to the Future, Star Wars and Indiana Jones.
These were the good times, the times where America was so great in our eyes, times where America stood for freedom and people's voice above all.
The same America, that now cannot be heard. The voice of its people are shadowed and shunned behind those who speak on behalf of it while not representing the true voice of America. Sad indeed to see a nation which once put a strong emphasis on the voice of people suddenly loses the voice of its people, with that it lost its own voice. What was left are voices of few, that can hardly represent the voice of their own neighborhood let alone the voice of the whole nation.
Even in politics the shift is noticeable, the rift is only widening with every president elected. Previous presidents when they were consulted and asked to represent the USA views on a foreign policy that affects a foreign nation, their answers almost look exactly the same: "lets ask the people of that nation to decide their future" "Lets see what the people of that nation wants as a government" "lets not make the decision on behalf of the people, let the people decide their own future". This has been seen as early as President Woodrow Wilson when asked about Palestine fate after the withdrawal of the British Mandate. Of course his views were different than those of France and Britain, who at the time knows nothing about asking people what they want the future to be. That notion was not only new, but unheard of in the eyes of old Britain and France to allow the people to decide their future. Of course President Wilson did not wait for the idea to sink in their own heads, but sent several missions with questionnaires to ask the people about how they wanna decide their future. The answer was that they wanted their independence as the state of Palestine. Of course everyone knows the end of this story, as neither France nor Britain were convinced of what President Wilson had put forth, and therefore, the President idea was overlooked and left forgotten while those sitting on desks some 5,000 miles aways decide the fate of the baker down the street.
This provides such a beautiful example of how America used to not only cherish its own values but also try to project those fair and just values on other nations to help bring the dreams of people onto reality.
However, the disease that once plagued Britain and France is slowly creeping into the only nation that stood against it once. The American voice is slowly turning around to follow the same voices that it declared independence from. For years the declaration of independence stood not only against freedom of a nation, but freedom of voice, of rights, of thinking a freedom to decide, create, and aspire. A freedom to dream and make that dream a reality. A declaration of value to hold dear what makes humans, humans. A freedom of thought.
The first amendment "Freedom of Speech" is also facing its major contestant as people find it harder to question where the taxes of the american people are spent. Billion of dollars are spent the majority of which are on Military and foreign aid. The recent foreign aid spending the majority of which are to Middle Eastern countries such as Afghanistan, Israel, Jordan and Egypt. The aid sent to those countries alone would reach as high as $10 billion according to 2013 data. For the American public to see such dollars spent for foreign countries that provide nothing back to the American people is puzzling, however, trying to challenge those will most definitely fall on deaf ears. In fact challenging some will instantly mark an American an anti-semite, a new notion implemented by the American government to counter the right put forth by the First Amendment, a right to freedom of speech and challanging the government. While Americans can only watch these billions of dollars spent on another country while their Affordable Care Act was swiftly revoked and they were left to apply for loans to save their lives, beg or die. To know that these 10 billion dollars are being spent on an annual basis while people in the USA are still deprived of free medical health care, free college education or even free housing adds more than insult to injury as the ultimate outcome in the former of these cases are death to those with no affordable health care.
It is saddening in deed to see what America has become, and it is saddening even worse to know that the free people of America cannot voice their concerns, while above all it's heartbreaking to see the people of America die after being deprived of health care not for lack of funds but because those funds are spent on someone that is considered more worthly than you, you can protest under the First Amendment but your voice is a dying anti-semite voice, beaten by police for raising a 99% percent banner. Who are you to defy Uncle Sam? 99%?
Make America Great Again was just a propaganda.
I first visited the USA in 1995, when I was just 11 year old. I spent a beautiful vacation which I still remember to this day in Orlando, Florida. I could not have believed myself as I went to Disney Park, Universal Studios and the never ending list of theme parks. Driving back and forth passing by waterpark after waterpark as you go from and back to the hotel.
It was the first time I was introduced to a drink other than Pepsi and Coca Cola, Dr. Pepper. As a kid I was thrown back by its amazing taste, it was slowly becoming my favorite drink in the hotel swimming pool. Sure most of Dr. Pepper drink went inside the pool to be diluted with the urine and chloride, but that drink was my everlasting reminder of how great America was. Don't be surprised by the word "was", make America Great Again imply the same notion.
Coming back from the holiday and greeted by my friends with questions like, what did you see, did you see flying cars? did people skate on hoverboards there? did you get to try a 3D cinema? It was childish questions based solely on the movies that we use to watch such as Back to the Future, Star Wars and Indiana Jones.
These were the good times, the times where America was so great in our eyes, times where America stood for freedom and people's voice above all.
The same America, that now cannot be heard. The voice of its people are shadowed and shunned behind those who speak on behalf of it while not representing the true voice of America. Sad indeed to see a nation which once put a strong emphasis on the voice of people suddenly loses the voice of its people, with that it lost its own voice. What was left are voices of few, that can hardly represent the voice of their own neighborhood let alone the voice of the whole nation.
Even in politics the shift is noticeable, the rift is only widening with every president elected. Previous presidents when they were consulted and asked to represent the USA views on a foreign policy that affects a foreign nation, their answers almost look exactly the same: "lets ask the people of that nation to decide their future" "Lets see what the people of that nation wants as a government" "lets not make the decision on behalf of the people, let the people decide their own future". This has been seen as early as President Woodrow Wilson when asked about Palestine fate after the withdrawal of the British Mandate. Of course his views were different than those of France and Britain, who at the time knows nothing about asking people what they want the future to be. That notion was not only new, but unheard of in the eyes of old Britain and France to allow the people to decide their future. Of course President Wilson did not wait for the idea to sink in their own heads, but sent several missions with questionnaires to ask the people about how they wanna decide their future. The answer was that they wanted their independence as the state of Palestine. Of course everyone knows the end of this story, as neither France nor Britain were convinced of what President Wilson had put forth, and therefore, the President idea was overlooked and left forgotten while those sitting on desks some 5,000 miles aways decide the fate of the baker down the street.
This provides such a beautiful example of how America used to not only cherish its own values but also try to project those fair and just values on other nations to help bring the dreams of people onto reality.
However, the disease that once plagued Britain and France is slowly creeping into the only nation that stood against it once. The American voice is slowly turning around to follow the same voices that it declared independence from. For years the declaration of independence stood not only against freedom of a nation, but freedom of voice, of rights, of thinking a freedom to decide, create, and aspire. A freedom to dream and make that dream a reality. A declaration of value to hold dear what makes humans, humans. A freedom of thought.
The first amendment "Freedom of Speech" is also facing its major contestant as people find it harder to question where the taxes of the american people are spent. Billion of dollars are spent the majority of which are on Military and foreign aid. The recent foreign aid spending the majority of which are to Middle Eastern countries such as Afghanistan, Israel, Jordan and Egypt. The aid sent to those countries alone would reach as high as $10 billion according to 2013 data. For the American public to see such dollars spent for foreign countries that provide nothing back to the American people is puzzling, however, trying to challenge those will most definitely fall on deaf ears. In fact challenging some will instantly mark an American an anti-semite, a new notion implemented by the American government to counter the right put forth by the First Amendment, a right to freedom of speech and challanging the government. While Americans can only watch these billions of dollars spent on another country while their Affordable Care Act was swiftly revoked and they were left to apply for loans to save their lives, beg or die. To know that these 10 billion dollars are being spent on an annual basis while people in the USA are still deprived of free medical health care, free college education or even free housing adds more than insult to injury as the ultimate outcome in the former of these cases are death to those with no affordable health care.
It is saddening in deed to see what America has become, and it is saddening even worse to know that the free people of America cannot voice their concerns, while above all it's heartbreaking to see the people of America die after being deprived of health care not for lack of funds but because those funds are spent on someone that is considered more worthly than you, you can protest under the First Amendment but your voice is a dying anti-semite voice, beaten by police for raising a 99% percent banner. Who are you to defy Uncle Sam? 99%?
Make America Great Again was just a propaganda.
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