There's something wrong when an immigrant is more patriotic to their new country than the people who were born there

Growing up in Canada, you're given the idea by the media that Americans are fanatically loyal to their country, and its people. Movies, books, television, even the internet promote this idea.

Imagine my surprise when I moved to this country only to find out that its anything but what they claim. Or rather, the people are anything but what all the media has claimed it is.

Americans are loyal to this idiotic idea that they've built up in their heads, through many years of brainwashing by one particular party, that the only thing that should matter is money, and power, and that they should do anything they can to get both.

Now thats not say that all Americans are that way, because frankly that would be incredibly stupid. Of course not all Americans are that way.

The problem is that the ones that are just happen to be the vocal minority with pretty much all the power, and they have managed to convince the redneck population (of which there are many, unfortunately) that caring about anyone other than themselves is a bad thing. Here, money appears to be god, and the insane radical Christian right has been suckered into believing that one single party actually believes in what they support.

And myself, as an immigrant to the United States? Well I find this attitude simply despicable and shameful. Frankly, that disturbs me. Not that I find it despicable and shameful, but that I am more loyal to the people of this country than the people born in this country are.

I actually care about what happens to them. I actually care when I see them suffering. Far too many Americans don't seem to care about other members of their country, but only about insane ideals that mean nothing in the end.

Equality and freedom don't come by anarchy. Anarchy simply promotes injustice because there is no one to stop it. No, equality and freedom come by working together. They seem to have forgotten the first paragraph of words in the Constitution they hold so dear.

"We the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America."

The words "we" and "union" are in there somewhere. Nowhere does it talk about how the people of the country should be fighting amongst each other. No, it talks about a union. Unions are about people working together for the common good, not about promoting screwing other people over to get as much as you can for yourself.

Lets remember "domestic tranquility" is in there. Does it seem to you that this country is full of domestic tranquility? Or is a certain party promoting fighting with each other every chance they get. I believe they've recently begun to be called "teabaggers", though thats only one term. Versus another party thats promoting actually taking care of other people, for everyones benefit.

Do you remember what this is about? Do you remember that government isn't the enemy? The Founding Fathers did not create government just so that you'd have something to fight. They created it to try to make sure everyone couldn't screw each other over.

The United States people have become exactly what the country was created to avoid. Corrupt, greedy, and feeding on itself. You must stop. If you don't, it will destroy you. You will destroy yourselves.

Don't you remember why people left Europe to settle in the United States? To escape exactly the behaviors you are currently promoting. To escape religious persecution for ALL religions, not just one. To escape the top (usually royalty) ruling over the bottom with an iron fist that often meant death. Yes, the circumstances are slightly different now, but not by that much. Only the method is different, not the result.

This country must unify if it is to survive. Not to the point of insanity, but to the point that it stops eating itself alive.