Why doesn’t it matter anymore?

Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness 

Please, send me a message

Being American isn’t taking down your pride flags and cowering as far as you can from the ballot box when there’s no hope anymore

And yet here we are

Why should that be it? 

Americans have been fighting since the beginning

And now it’s all pushed away and scrapped

A factory collapsed in Bangladesh around 10 years ago.

America dealt with the political issues in Bangladesh in 1910

And now it doesn’t matter?

Why take away what we’ve fought so hard for? 

”We the people” isn’t something you put in your paper for a good grade when you don’t mean it

All people should be treated equally, as one nation, under god, indivisible, with justice for all.

Posted in response to the challenge American Experiment.

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