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Quote by: The Architect What do you think it mean to be an american? Are you proud to be an American?Does it mean supporting the government? What do you think?

What do you think it mean to be an american

First and foremost, it perhaps means for most people to either go to school, or work a job. Americans are too preoccupied making a living, housing themsleves, and raising their families, in order to get too involved in the platitudes we examine here.

To me personally, it is all about being an individual and maintaining an individual identity in a time where politicians are increasing their pressure upon people to all be the same. It is all about resisting the pressures from a nation that is growing increasingly totalitarian through socialist and communist ideology by encouraging people to abdicate the authority of their own lives over to the nanny statists and elites who think they know better for me than I do for myself.

It is with all my might that I will resist these people, and their overbearing powers, until I breathe my final breath.

I relish in the founding philosophies of this country that are all too often being run over roughshod by people who have no clue what the founding philosophies were in this great experiment called democracy. And if these people who are destroying Liberty and Freedom are consciously participating in its destruction, then they are even more dangerous than I currently think today.

Americans should be proud of their heritage. Americans should be proud of their nation. However, Americans need to be vigilant of their government because too many people are increasingly unaware of their government's actions and the philosopny supporting those actions. What people know of their government they increasingly become ashamed of and equate this with the Nation. However, the Nation is the population that comprises its borders and not just the government. When the people allow the government to lead them astray because they are too busy in their livelihoods to take care, then the Nation arrives at the state in which it finds itself today. We are represented by a government that increasingly no longer reflects the values of its people. No wonder people are ashamed to admit they are Americans. It is no wonder to me that people are being taught to hate America.

This will only get worse unless the people of this nation awaken to the reality that both the Democratic and Republican Parties have failed its people. The rebirth of individual responsibility will reignite the fires of individualism that are rooted in the founding philosophies of this nation. There is no room for collectivism in our pursuit of Liberty in America. Americans must desert, once and for all, these antiquated political parties and return to the individual responsibility for their own lives. Anything less will spell the certain destruction of the America founded and established by our courageous forefathers. I raise my glass in a toast to Liberty and wish for all Americans to drink as well..