>>7268260 (pb)
You know, I was never what you consider "patriotic" before this. Love America, sure, but I absolutely HATED and FEARED our govt. Not individuals per se, and I'm not and never been an anarchist or strict lolberterian, but hated the people who populated our govt who clearly and obviously hated us, you and I, the regular ordinary, not special, not highly educated, not-coastal-liberals. Truly detest and revile us. The Orwellian panopticon to surveil our every move, looking for any step out of line, bombing people around the world that we don't even care about while bleeding us dry.
The first vote I ever cast was for Ross Perot - a business man who would coldly assess the structure of our govt and trim the fat (we're not Vogons with need for triplicate everything) and turn the ship around. But alas it was not to be - threats to his family were too much. I voted anyway for him.
And I wasn't paying attention to Trump during the primaries until a certain point - I couldn't pinpoint it but there was a moment where I realized that this rich fucker was generally like a playboy version of Perot - and he wasn't a smooth politician - he said what we /polacks/ (sort of) think and never backed down. He has been consistent and I realized, like many that this was our chance! It may be our very last chance. I hadn't voted in a while because the puppets they put in front of us where all so odious: No Name (seriously??), Romney (are you fucking kidding me?) - none were palatable in the least. I had given up.
and then...
I jumped on the Trump Train. I put on my meme magician hat and got to work. Fought in the great b0t storm of 2016 and the Meme War, dug pizzagate and made graphics out the wazoo. I don't know if the stars aligned and my Aspergers was celestially-accellerated or what (maybe Jello, who knows) but I'm all-in.
It's a totally foreign position for me to take - to actually have confidence that there are people in OUR government who don't hate and detest us, who genuinely love not only the abstract idea of our country, but the boring, work-a-day, non-interesting, non-glamorous 7-11 citizen workers, the mechanics, the dental assistant citizens. Those who are just glossed over as an afterthought - we who are farmed for our taxes and discarded like yesterday's trash. Can you even believe it?
A president who touches a veteran's face because he has lost both arms and can't shake hands. A HUD secretary who says that they should consider American citizens first. Senators who buck the system of "take" and state on the record that some people attempted a coup in order to displace that one person at the top who actually takes the time to think about the bricklayer and what he thinks.
It's hard to believe, lads. I never in my whole life expected to be excited about getting a flag to mount on my front porch and being upset when a storm blew it down. I never thought that in a million years I would have goosebumps when a president spoke - to ME - and on behalf of the millions of me's out there.
I am so grateful for this opportunity, to live at this time. Not only for the amazing technological changes I've witnessed and will no doubt continue - but to see the transformation of our citizenry - I know there are thousands more like me on this amazing journey. I get choked up sometimes; that we have a leader who not only loves our country but all of us in it, and we have found each other and can look and see - we are the country, we are working to take it back with the help of each other, MILINT and POTUS.
What a time to be alive.
Bless you all!