I’m a liberal retard. Who knew?!!

I posted a comment on one of the American sites I visit. I can’t remember what it was about (I blame chemo brain and the drugs), but I’m sure it was a response to something Mr Trump had said, or a bill he’d signed or something similar. I often have something to say about that sort of thing. One of the reponders to my little comment called me a “libtard” (I assume that’s a compilation of “liberal” and “retard”) and  told me that, as I was a foreigner, I had no right to comment on  anything that happens in that country.

Really? I have no right to comment on anything America does? Yet, America has the right to comment on everyone else. Iran can’t have nuclear capabilities; North Korea can’t shoot it’s missiles into the air; London and Paris and Berlin should do something about their immigrants and the violence in their cities (pot calling the kettle black!); Afghanistan had to be invaded because Osama bin Laden was there, somewhere; Iraq had to be invaded because terrorists shot down the Twin Towers (even though Iraq had nothing to do with that); Mexico has to do something about all the rapists and thugs that are trying to leave their country…

America has set itself up as the great founder and last bastion of democracy and happily tells the rest of us where we have gone astray. Completely forgetting that they’re not the only democracy on the planet. American cinema tells us what a hero looks like: usually a maverick who happily takes the law into their own hands and shoots and kills anyone who does them wrong; thereby implying a lynch mob is ok. America is constantly telling the other nations how to behave; what commercial policies they should have; what goods they can or can’t sell; who can enter their country; who should leave… I mean, let’s face it, America hardly ever shuts up.

I love America and consider it my second home. People I love and call “family”, are still living there. I’m not an American citizen, but I’m a member of the human race. I care about what happens to this world and to the animals and people in it. I am going to point out injustice, cruelty and narcissistic arrogance wherever I see it.  Even if I see it in a country not my own. And especially if that country is having its democracy eroded at an alarming rate, it’s moral standards dropped into the mud, it’s racism amplified and its president acting like a rich, spoiled brat.

If that makes me a “libtard” then I wear the moniker with pride. (I bet the fellow who called me that, doesn’t know what “moniker” means.)