On a side note, I realized after the election that any sense of nationalism that this country had is gone. It's no longer about the country or our country's future. It's all about individualism and selfishness.
I'm not sure you understand the meanings of the words you're using.
You say American citizens do not care about America anymore but only themselves. Another entitlement-society argument. This is highly cynical and borders on paranoid delusion. After an election in which tens of millions of Americans took time out of their day to ponder the choice of their next leader, drive to volunteer-led station and receive a sticker with "I voted!" emblazoned over an American flag, you realized any sense of
nationalism (perhaps you mean
patriotism? It doesn't make much difference here I don't think) that this country had was gone. By country you mean its citizens, of course, but how many? You exaggerate and seem to mean all of them but perhaps it is just enough citizens to win a national election for your opposition's party. Anyway, nationalism or patriotism are not the words you want to use here. You're speaking of national values, "American" values, like- drum roll please-
individualism. Individualism which you later lament.
You claim voters, who lack any sense of nationalism or patriotism, through use of the healthcare issue and entitlement argument you declare lack values like individualism as a virtue, do not care about their country (within which they had just voted in a national election). *catches breath* How do you know this to be true? You emphasize that Americans truly only care about individualism (by which you don't mean individualism but something else) and selfishness. I'm guessing you don't understand the definition of individualism, likely because you've never read a book. Individualism is "all about" that personal responsibility and self-reliance you weakly champion later. I could be mistaken, and you could actually oppose individualism itself as it would seem to be an anti-nationalist idea. Though individualism is universally proclaimed as an American ideal, so honestly I have little idea what you are trying to say.
"Obama will continue to give free contraception and birth control"... I'll vote for him, yet I can buy a condom at gas station for 99 cents.
Gas-station condoms are not the solution to a healthcare debate.
"Obama is going to give ME free health care"... Cool but what about the future of the country after this thing completely bankrupts us.
Cool but what about your characterization of your opponents as completely entitled, selfish, lazy and yet also democratically motivated? Cool but what of your scapegoating of a larger fiscal crisis on one government program?
It kills me knowing that my kids are going to have this enormous debt crisis on their plates.
I'm not sure you actually have kids. Literacy and language proficiency on the internet are not great predictors of age or intelligence, but
come on- this is tedious to read. America will be
bankrupted by Obamacare yet your kids will face a
debt crisis when they come of age. Firstly the basic idea behind the word bankruptcy is that most if not all your debts are discharged. Clearly this comprehension is at least something you find difficulty conveying. Secondly, bankruptcy is not the only threat (or even main threat) of a national debt crisis. Finally, there is a debt crisis now, "on your plate." This debt crisis is not the result of one source, catalyst, or final straw, nor does it have only one consequence. These are not controversial points.
We use to be a country of hard work and self-responsibility, but are now a shadow of our former self.
You're probably not using "self-responsibility" as a technical term in the fields of holistic medicine or child development, so for clarity's sake you can just write "responsibility." For your use it works just as well. Maybe you meant to say
personal responsibility, but were in such a rush to angrily condemn the country you forgot to proofread your otherwise brilliant essay.
A single goddamned paragraph. I can't do the rest. Hopefully as a nephew of surgeons you can understand.
