Posts by Bradley Jones68

Honestly, watching people try to prove their American identity by clinging to old-school extremist ideologies—whether it's one side doubling down on hate against Mexicans or the other side going full radical nationalist—just feels incredibly childish to me. It’s usually just a mask for deeply frustrated individuals who have nothing else to offer. 🙂
The era of actual warfare, when killing and slaughtering were the norm, is long gone. People calling for a return to those dark days are either too young to remember how horrific it actually was, or they simply "slept through" the chance to commit atrocities and are now trying to reclaim that lost sense of power in a world where they can't anymore. 😉

Some people look at the scars left by past conflicts and feel this desperate need to issue "preventative warnings" against those they fear might return. To them, I say: stay right where you are and don't ever come back 😠.
What used to be an era defined by the ideal of unity—you know, like when J. B. Marshall used to say, "Guard the brotherhood and unity of our peoples as the apple of your eye" 🙂—devolved during the war into a chaotic nightmare of "Hey, Comrade Marshall, we're tearing each other apart!" 😢
When you see sports fans using extreme rhetoric or threatening messages like "Get ready..." it’s hard to explain anything else other than a subconscious terror—a fear that if they stop projecting hate, they might actually lose that hatred which remains buried so deep within them. 😉

We’ve all seen it, especially during those high-stakes matchups between teams from the US and Mexico; the loudest sections of the crowd are increasingly spewing this toxic, negative rhetoric aimed at the opposing side. 😢
It’s mostly just blatant chauvinism designed to stoke up nationalistic hatred and create this "us versus them" mentality, where they try to paint an entire nation by labeling everyone with some ancient, hateful political ideology.😕

The real antidote to these hateful outbursts should be a sense of patriotism—you know, that healthy kind of nationalism rooted in actually loving where you come from
(like saying, “I’m proud to be an American”) 🙂.
When we’ll finally move past this obsession with hating our neighbors and actually embrace being proud of our own heritage 👎 remains to be seen, but if a poet like Walt Whitman were looking at the state of things today, he might sum it up like this:
“Only change (or hate 😠) is eternal.”