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By globalistgirl, on January 27th, 2005

National Unity

I can’t help but acknowledge that part of the identity shift I mentioned yesterday is due to the fact that it is becoming difficult for me to see myself as fully American in the current political situation. Part of it is due to the foreign policy and the propaganda circulating to support it, which I reject completely on both ethical and political grounds. Another part is due to the essentialism proposed by the extreme right (in an American context that never means the neo-nazis or associated groups, it means super-duper-conservatives and sometimes neoconservatives). Another is the militant religiosity that is so common here. And I’m not alone. I’ve seen a lot of LiveJournal posts lately voicing sentiments of alienation, from all kinds of people. So much for national unity.

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