Apologizing for America

It's easy to put this trite accusation to rest. We're not apologizing for America, we're apologizing for a rogue version of it invented by Republicans. The entire world is now on edge trying to figure out where, in the monstrous mutation of our country we now inhabit, are our ideals. 

Which is to say those principles on which we were founded and which, as they abandon them, Republicans scream about all the more loudly. No one has ever expected us to be perfect, let alone the beacon that certain right-wing blowhards proclaim us to be, but only to keep the faith.

The faith in freedom and individualism and respect for the rights of others, and at the keeping of that faith we have failed. We lay the failure at the feet of Republicans. Why? Every rational outsider I've spoken with has said the same thing, that a certain presidential election was key.

When we reelected the most criminally incompetent and morally defective leader in the history of the country. That's when the world gave up on us or at least began to wonder and worry, what the hell is happening over there, meaning here, in the land where we are no longer created equal.

We are created privileged and predestined, in keeping with the beliefs of the ruling coalition of bluebloods and rednecks, both of which factions were somehow embodied in the winner of that election, who went on to show the world the extent to which we think we are above the law.

It makes sense that we would be defensive and self righteous in proportion to our failure, and unwilling to assume any responsibility to a degree commensurate with the crimes, which are ongoing, the legacy of those horrible years of Republican hegemony, for which I again apologize.