He's been brainwashed to think that all white ancestors are bad, our founding fathers are bad. Etc... white guilt is strong with him as with many of the board's libs
I held off responding over the weekend due to Easter holiday and because I wasn't in front of a Computer. A lot of people today in USA are just bitter people because they want success but don't want to work to achieve it. They know it but throw out a bunch of other arguments.
Long story, but I happened to be at the Covenant Church this weekend for Easter service and one thought that crossed my head was about the shooting (I couldn't help it). I thought about how fortunate the shooter was to be raised at such a nice facility and thought about how I would have loved to be raised in that environment. I compared that to my thoughts about visiting Liberia to adopt my child over the summer and the struggle of Liberians to just get homes, food, shelter, and basic needs. It really puts to shame the bitter people in our own country. Americans have it made and we hit the lottery but we cannot see it.
He assumed that my family is rich. My grandfather had to hunt as a child because his dad would leave them for long stretches. He rarely had shoes so bought my mom shoes every Christmas. My mom was the first in her family to graduate college and climbed the ladder from basically the bottom (had a Secretary degree) to a Corporate Director position.
Similarly, I was the first to get a graduate/doctorate degree in my family and work hard. You need to be respectful, honest, hard working, and eliminate the blame game to grow. Personality is a big part of success, this is why Emotional Intelligence is getting so much attention in Corporate America.
I admire the past. The issue in our nation is more than just government. A lot of these bitter people that I see brought the issues on themselves. They can't get along with people, including their own family, they don't study, they sleep around and get pregnant out of wedlock, they do drugs, they don't study or work hard, they fight with teachers/parents, etc. There are a lot of personal decisions that put people into the spot they are in. Broken families, especially, is killing our nation. I feel for people that were raised by terrible parents and this is why I am so active in the adoption/fostering community although there are major issues there as well.
The true way to fix it is on an individual level and not a political level. When I talk about past cultures, perhaps this video by Alan Jackson sums up well the America that we once had:
Perhaps if America took more of that mentality and loved their nation, their God, their families, and their neighbors more than themselves and stop being so prideful, bitter, and materialistic, we would start to see success again.
Most people on here won't listen so probably wasting my time even posting this thread. Americans are what they are and frankly they are very ignorant. Sadly, they will one day stand before God and be judged and it will be too late for them once that happens.
I will say that people tend to act more mature and take conversations more seriously if you reach out to them outside of social media. Social media just breeds toxicity.
