Reply #62: Don't feel bad. I wish the same. I was as uninformed [View All]

[blonndee]

as you were. I absolutely had NO IDEA. I was so naive, I really thought that all the stuff America was involved with was for the betterment of the world at large. I was SO naive and uninformed. But when 9/11 happened, thankfully, I was in college and had access to some awesome history profs. I was so interested I really started looking into WHY this could happen. And I learned a LOT. It was really, really tough. I learned a lot about what my country had done, what it REALLY stood for, and it broke my heart. It was a lot like losing my religious faith. I went and talked about this with a certain prof of mine, and I confess, I cried, and not just in her office. And I remember, as cliched as it may sound now, crying for what was for me, the death of my country. What I had believed was my country was a lie. And in a matter of a year or so, I went from an apathetic, quasi-politically conservative person to a skeptic on EVERYTHING. Almost five years later, I'm a raging liberal. All it takes is critical thinking.

I hate for anyone to have to go through such a painful process but at the same time, I WISH that everyone would, for their own sake and for the sake of our country.