Pride? What exactly should I be proud of?

An economy with a foundation of slavery
native genocide
speculative banking
lobbyists
corporate money in control of politicians
fast food
social media addiction
big pharmaceutical sponsored opioide addiction
shopping malls
fucking Arby’s
factory farms
GMO’s
billboards
sexual predators in elected office
suburbs
strip mall parking lots
obese children
spiritually disconnected families and communities
neighbors who don’t know each other’s names
isolated work environments
nuclear families
gender roles
heteronormativity
hypermasculinity
minimum wage slaves
underpaid migrant workers
deportation
border control
prison profiteering
mandatory minimums
military industrial complex
largest prison population on the planet
oil pipelines destroying ecosystems
Standing Rock burns to the ground
gerrymandering
political apathy
consumerism
celebrity obsession
3/5th contract
lazy radicals
republicans
fucking liberals
police brutality
racial injustice
sexual misconduct
patriarchy
bro culture
donald fucking trump
led in the drinking water
fantasy football
concrete and telephone wires
imperialism
proxy wars
drone strikes
innocent casualties
war mongering
nuclear arsenals
economic inequality
class war
wage gaps
gentrification
structured poverty
internalized misogyny
internalized racism
titty magazines
the petting zoo
land theft
staging a coup for democratically elected communist leaders and propping up and supporting
dictators in south America
manufacturing weapons to fund terrorism in the middle east after destabilizing the entire region
the red scare
witch hunts
a white skinned, blue eyed, blond haired Jesus Fucking Christ
co-opted and appropriated religion
the church collection tray
school shootings
mega-churches
televangelists
cool cars
gasoline
Fossil fuels
exhaust fumes
alcoholism
bar culture
pill pushing doctors’ prescriptions
matthew mconnahe trying to sell me a Lincoln
the alt-right
islamaphobia
xenophobia
suicide
divorce
college debt
big buildings
trendy haircuts
kanye west
diamond rings from blood mines
hipsters
another day at the office
traffic jams
forest fires
fracking
hurricanes
climate disaster
ecological destruction
extinct species
fetishized consumerism
High fructose corn syrup
christmas music
plastic packaging
all that fucking trash
heaps of burning tires
plastic islands in the ocean
insurance companies
CEO’s
lack of affordable healthcare
“stress” culture
luxury loft apartments
white people
complacency
executive businessman who pinches the secretary on the ass because he thinks it’s playful
iphones
techies
social media driven egocentric obsession
make-up
pyramid schemes
the secretary of state is an Exxon CEO
the head of the EPA doesn’t “believe” in climate change
the attorney general is a racist
the KKK
lynch mobs
mass surveillance
data breaches
“nudes”
netflix binges
vietnam
draft cards
the great depression
the dust bowl
bacon bits
disneyland
black friday
soda pop

What the fuck do I have to be proud of?
The only thing I like about this country
is some of the landscape and some of the people
and that has nothing to do with your lines in the sand or your stars and stripes.
You’re worried about kneeling?
I’ll wipe my ass with that fucking flag.
It’s a piece of cloth that represents nothing but ugly.
I do not respect it.

I truly pity anyone fooled by this false narrative fairy tale of “dying for freedom”.
I support troops only because they are people
who were duped into thinking
they’d be cared for if they killed for.
However, I will never support war
and the only thing soldiers have ever died for is the imperialist whims of the greedy and powerful
in search of the spoils of war.
Land, power, oil, more, more, more, more!

You’ve got a salute slammed into a vacant skull
and your hand on a hole where your heart should be.

So, Fuck You America