We Aren't THAT bad! [View all]

[Dorothy V]

There is so much negativity about the USA going on everywhere I look these days that I have to say something about it: Folks, we are not that bad!
We have produced people like Jimmy Carter and the Obamas. Looking over our history, we have produced so many good people who made a difference here and also abroad, from scientists to humanitarians and even to politicians.
Now, we see how many people voted red and want to despair. We want to think ill of so many of our fellow Americans, but my experiences have said different. Yes, we have bad people, every nation does. Yet, I can go weeks without meeting up with any of them.
I live in a small farm town at the edge of a major metro area in a beet red state. I am also old and gimpy. Many if not most of the folks I have contact with either voted for the orange monstrosity or didn't vote at all. But total strangers help me with doors, they help me get an electric buggy at the supermarket, they help me put my groceries in my car. I could go on and on, but consider things we do see in the news or on YTube and elsewhere and may have personal experience with.
We run to try to help if we see a car wreck. We drop what we're doing to help look for a lost child. We give our old clothes to charity and donate money to good causes. We go abroad to work in outfits like the Red Cross and Doctors Without Borders. Again, I could go on and on.
We Americans, despite what our politicians are doing, are basically a kind and friendly and generous people. We need to keep sight of that, lest we succumb to despair.