It's been hard traveling to other parts of the world over the past eight years, feeling the need to apologize for the president, for the US electorate for voting in such a president, for the embarassing US policies enacted by right-wing elected officials and administration, etc. Actually, there was a brief window after 9/11, when there was such goodwill toward the US, but how quickly that was squandered.
It was generally easy for me, and such a cop out, to pretend that I wasn't an American. People could look at me and make whatever assumptions they wanted and I didn't bother to set them straight. But, sometimes people knew I really was from the US. Thank goodness, people outside of the US are able to distinguish a country's citizens from its policies.
Now, change has come! I don't have to travel incognito; ergo sum!
May peace come to troubled areas (the audacity of hope is so liberating)
PRW (Proud Re-energized Wicked)
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