Jackel Loc: California

"WHAT HAPPENED TO ME?"


I used to think I was just a regular person, but I was born white which now, whether I like it or not, makes me a racist.

I am a fiscal and moral conservative, which by today's standards, makes me a fascist.

I am heterosexual, which now makes me a homophobe.

I am mostly non-union, which makes me a traitor to the working class and an ally of big business.

I was christened by my parents (who were married, in a church and remained married until they died), which now labels me as an infidel.

I am older than 65 and retired, which makes me useless.

I think and I reason, therefore I doubt much that the main stream media tells me, which must make me a reactionary.

I am proud of my heritage which makes me a xenophobe.

I value my safety and that of my family and I appreciate the police and the legal system, which makes me a right-wing extremist.

I believe in hard work, fair play, and fair compensation according to each individual's merits, which today makes me an anti-socialist.

I (and most of the folks I know), acquired a fair education without student loan debts and little or no debt at graduation, which makes me some kind of an odd underachiever.

I believe in the defence and protection of the homeland for and by all citizens and I honour those who served in the Armed Forces, which now makes me a right wing-militant.

Please help me come to terms with the new me… because I'm just not sure who the hell I am anymore!

I would like to thank all my friends for sticking with me through these seemingly abrupt, new found changes in my life and my thinking!

I just can't imagine or understand what's happened to me so quickly!

Funny …it’s all just taken place over the last 7 or 8 years!


As if all this nonsense wasn’t enough to deal with…...


.....now I’m not even sure which toilet to go into…………..

photog11 Loc: San Francisco

Yeah, me too. I think part of the problem is living in California (which I dearly love).

Longshadow Loc: Audubon, PA, United States

pmsc70d Loc: Post Falls, Idaho

You are okay. The loonies are running the asylum.

3dees

sometimes I'm glad that I'm 68 years old. don't know if I want to be around in 40 or 50 years. well, the way the world is going, maybe no one will be around in 40 years.

Longshadow Loc: Audubon, PA, United States

Aren't you inquisitive as to how bad things will get?

stonecherub Loc: Tucson, AZ

Every one of those sentences, up to the words "makes me," describes me exactly. The endings suggest that you spend too much time watching Fox "News."

"I (and most of the folks I know), acquired a fair education without student loan debts and little or no debt at graduation" The term "student loan" did not exist in 1963 but I did have to borrow money from NFCU to buy my uniforms (including that goddamn sword that I just had to have and used four times in 20 years). Went through grad school on the GI bill. In those days, public education was everybody's responsibility and so the government (us) financed it. Now the grand-kids are up to their ear-balls in debt.

When I dodged the draft by joining the Navy, I didn't go into "the military, or the armed forces," I went into THE SERVICE! I served my countrymen, with all that means (Do NOT thank me, I rather enjoyed it). And now, some of them hate me so much because of what they've been told I believe, they are willing to burn MY country down with them in it. Go figger!

SharpShooter Loc: NorCal

Yes, like many nit-wits, none of what YOU mention made you!
Only YOU made you what you are. Not everyone you describe is like you, they have made themselves different and are confused by nothing! Your looking for excuses!
What you made youself into is another STUPID conservative, racist, but YOU did that. Obviously you fucked yourself up!!! LoL
SS

skylane5sp Loc: Puyallup, WA

You give assholes a bad name...

thom w Loc: San Jose, CA

He gave you a bad name?

williejoha

You are what you are. You are in control unless you turned it over to others. I am a conservative, but not a follower of all the FOX News BS that is thrown around or all the other Trump'ism. Look in the mirror and if you like what you see, well, be happy.
I am still wondering what all this has to do with photography but just could not resist to answer a poor soul who is lost. Merry Christmas.
WJH

Twardlow Loc: Arkansas

I realize this is an attempt at humor, but I have to point out nearly all of these are wrong.

Screamin Scott Loc: Marshfield Wi, Baltimore Md, now Dallas Ga

No, more like he gave you a bad name...

Screamin Scott Loc: Marshfield Wi, Baltimore Md, now Dallas Ga

That's right SS. Liberals made him those things because Liberals (like you) are too stupid and have no deductive abilities to know any better.

mwalsh Loc: Houston

I am most of the things described in the first half of those sentences, and I have pretty much never been labeled the things you mention in the second half of those sentences. You have my sympathies if you live somewhere that those labels get unfairly applied to you.

You also have my sympathies if the labels are applicable to you because of who you actually are.

The last few sentences don't apply to my existence.

Cheers!