Wednesday, April 21, 2010

Kick Me!

You know how, when you were a kid, sometimes a "friend" would put a sign on your shirt in the guise of a loving pat on the back? And then, after you'd been kicked in the butt one too many times, you figured out that you had a notice on your back giving the world free rein to whack you?

And then you lamented the fact that 1) someone who called themself your "friend" would do that to you but 2) and almost more importantly, you wished that a true friend would have told you about the note...given you a so-called "heads up."

Well...we're not listening...we the USA that is.

Here in Europe we are seen as a bunch of fools, previously led by the likes of George Bush and Dick Cheney but now being dragged around by none other than Sarah Palin and Glenn Beck.

The photographs and articles depict us as buffoons. How else to explain the fact that we take our cues from such as Palin, Beck, Limbaugh and Hannity. People are laughing at us.

And the Tea Party. "OMG", as the young people say.

The Tea Partiers are really pissed off...often with good cause...sometimes misguidedly. And the Oracles of the extreme right are pouring fuel on the embers.

Any minute there is going to be an explosion.

Our friends in Europe see us for what we are...a bunch of spoiled teenagers crying out for what we want with no real regard for the sensibilities of others. The rest of the world are adults and we're kids. Big, bullying kids taking and taking because we can and just messing things up.

The Europeans get it. Co-exist peacefully. Recycle. Be energy efficient. Respect others. Mind your own business.

We don't get it. We point the finger outwards and say that it's everyone else's fault...not ours. Like kids.

And we're the ones with the target on our backs.

Our friends are talking.

The problem is that we are making so much noise we can't hear them.

Hope we shut up before it's too late.

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