We did it!
November 5th, 2008 | Published in Miscellaneous
Today I feel something I’ve never felt before: pride in my country.
I’ve been ashamed of the U.S. for most of my life. When I’ve traveled abroad I’ve done my best not to “out” myself as an American out of embarrassment. For the past 8 years we’ve had a bumbling idiot representing us to the rest of the world. I seriously considered, on multiple occasions, packing up and denouncing my citizenship—jumping ship seemed a rational action when faced with the reality of a drunken cowboy-buffoon at the helm, his coked-up crapulence sure to steer us into the gaping maw of depression at any moment.
Today I’m proud that we elected an inspiring leader that has united Americans across boundaries of class, race, gender, age, and religion in unprecedented numbers. I’m proud that children around the world awoke today to possibilities that in their parents’ lifetimes had seemed unattainable. And dammit, I’m actually optimistic that the archaic, obtuse attitudes that have shrouded U.S. history in shame may be fading into obscurity.
It’s a pretty good day.
