Snow Melt

Anti-American? Moi?

"Invalid Entry"  I am not Anti-American. I am a registered voter. I am registered non-partisan. I am not registered Independent. I am not registered Independent-Democrat. I am not registered Independent-Republican. I am registered non-partisan. I have no political affiliation of any type. I vote. I work the poles on Election Day.

I don’t hate politicians. I don’t know any politician well enough for that strong of an emotion and I don’t want to know one that well. (I can’t hate anyone I’m not intimately acquainted with.) The few politicians I have met seem like nice people. A congresswoman from Nevada impressed me once. She didn’t know she impressed me. I saw her car ahead of me when I was driving west on Charleston Blvd. She was driving her own car and she turned into a self-service gas station and put gas in the car herself. True her car was a late model traditional large American car, but the fact that she put gas in her own car was enough to impress me. It doesn’t take a lot to make me happy either.

What is a true American? Well, I consider myself a true American and a citizen of the world. I was born in America, in a town in Middle America. I’m Scotch-Irish-German-Native-American. I believe that the human race is a single species, with its genesis in Africa. I am a white Caucasian (all right, I have to admit that I always wanted to put that phrase in a blog entry).

I know many American Citizens who were born in this country and just as many who are naturalized citizens. I know people who are Republicans. I know people who are Democrats. In my own family I have one brother registered Democrat and one Republican. My family also has members with a wide range of religious affiliations, but that is another blog entry.

I haven’t answered the question “What is a true American?” I don’t think there is such a thing because “true American” depends on the definition a person is using. Definitions like that are very personal and individualized. Therefore, what one individual would consider “a true American” another wouldn’t.

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