Patriotics Beware, You will not like this.

now listening to: Brother Ali a.k.a. The Truth

I know I hate when someone just makes their blog a whole song quote, but I had to.
I was listening to this song and just thought it was a good analogy to the U.S.
I don't hate the people that make up the United States. I love them.
But sometimes I can't help to feel like there's something wrong here.
So, here ya go (sorry if you're offended):

Smoke and mirrors, stripes and stars
Stolen for the cross in the name of God
Bloodshed, genocide, rape and fraud
Written to the pages of the law, good Lord
The Cold Continent latch key child
Ran away one day and started acting foul
King of where the wild things are; daddy's proud
Cuz the Roman Empire done passed it down
Imported and tortured a work force
and never healed the wounds or shook the curse off
Now the grown up Goliath nation
Holdin open auditions for the part of David, can you feel it?
Nothing can save ya,
You question the reign
You get rushed in and chained up
Fist raised but I must be insane
Cuz I can't figure a single ... way to change it

Welcome to the United Snakes
Land of the thief home of the slave
The grand imperial guard where the dollar is sacred
And power is god...

All must bow to the fat and lazy
The ... you obey me and why do they hate me
Only two generations away
From the world's most despicable slavery trade
Pioneered so many ways to degrade a human being
that it can't be changed to this day
Legacy so ingrained in the way
that we think we no longer need chains to be slaves
Lord, it's a shameful display
The overseers even got raped along the way
Cause the children can't escape from the pain
and they're born with poisoness hatred in their veins
Try and separate a man from his soul
you only strengthen him and lose your own
But shoot that ... if he walk near the throne
Remind him that this is my home

Welcome to the United Snakes
Land of the thief, home of the slave
The grand imperial guard where the dollar is sacred
And power is god...

You don't give money to the bums
on a corner with a sign, bleeding from their gums
Talking about you don't support a crackhead
What you think happens to the money from your taxes?
... the governments an addict
With a billion dollar a week kill brown people habit
And even if you aint on the front line,
when massah yell crunch time, you right back at it
Plain look at how you hustling backwards
At the end of the year add up what they subtracted
Three outta twelve months your salary pays for that madness
Man, that's savage
What's left get a big ... plasma
To see where they made Dan Rather point the damn camera
Only approved questions get answered
Now stand your ass up for that national anthem

Welcome to the United Snakes
Land of the thief, home of the slave
The grand imperial guard where the dollar is sacred
And power is god

(You're so low)
Custom made (You're so low)
To consume the noose (You're so low)
Keep saying we're free (You're so low)
But we're all just blue (You're so low)

shalom.