My summer endeavor

This summer I've had to take on the grueling task of completing a summer school class due to my inability to fit it into my schedule and it being a graduation requirement. The class: Government.  Right off the bat, I've decided I detest it. My friends have all questioned me, "Is it really that bad?". Yes, it is, and here's why.

Everything about the course material screams patriotism, and all I can hear ringing in my head is, "You're a grand old flag, you're a high flying flag," and other equally peppy patriotic songs.  The course is so peachy about America and democracy and you're a citizen, wow!, here's why that's soooo important and here are your duties! It reminds me of a plastic, overly enthusiastic sales person.

Because you know what, the course doesn't give a damn about the fact that our government has gotten so corrupt and money controlled, and that countless people are being abused by the system. We're supposed to use our civilian-granted rights to help keep the government in check, you say? Well maybe you need to do a reality check because that's not working out so well right now.  Equal rights for citizens, you say? Maybe you should look into that a little deeper, beneath the glowing red white and blue glamour covering the true darkness in the country.

In all honesty, the course eerily reminds me of something Big Brother-ish, a little 1984-esque, where its brainwashing into how perfect things are and how proud we should be to be citizens of the  grand ol' United States.

Now don't get me wrong, the United States stands for some great things, like equality and freedom, it's just that quite honestly that's not how things are in the government right now.  I'm happy to be a citizen of the US on the account of what it's supposed to stand for, but am I proud of how we appear to the rest of the world? No, I'm quite ashamed. I feel similar to how a mom does when her toddler is throwing a temper tantrum in the middle of a crowded grocery store, or a mom who has to talk to the other parents about how her kid got caught being a bully again.  Embarrassment.

So now, I have a month and a half left of glamorized government to suffer through, pray that I survive a course that pretends the topic at hand isn't ridiculously corrupt and manipulated by money. Oh boy.