“Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under.”
January 13, 2010
-H. L. Mencken (1880 – 1956)
I disagree with you Mr. Mencken. And if you are correct then I must be a great man, I doubt that I’m there yet. “We the people”, made the government mine, and I’m not ashamed of anything of mine; not my parents, my siblings, my friends or my past. A democracy like ours is meant and has been meant to be run by all of us. Some believe it is a corrupt system without any feasible ways to make changes; but I have not seen a single one of those believers try. Even if it is a corrupt system, we are still people, we still have voices and undeniably, from birth many of us have been blessed with the capacity for revolt. If the system is not mine like I do think it is, then I can, I will work to make it mine. Instead of being taken by the negativity of being ashamed.
