Toppling an Empire
America, the brave and the bold, the loving pledge of allegiance, the veneer of a greater society, oh America the virtuous. Now, let's strip that coding and the obnoxious propaganda that I just put forth. People ask me: "why do you criticize America? I mean, America doesn't murder people for witchcraft and sorcery like Saudi Arabia. America doesn't abuse Muslims like they do in China or Myanmar. America didn't do the holocaust like in Germany did or mistreat it's own citizens like what's being done in North Korea, so why criticize America?" Well, the answer is quite simple, it is because I am an American. To illustrate this, I remember seeing Captain America II in theaters and thought that as a hero no one was more virtuous, as explained by Aristotle and his description of virtue ethics. As some might say: "but this doesn't explain why you criticize America so harshly" ; and to you I say be patient because I'm gett