CURRENT EVENTS
10 Examples Where the U.S. Has Supported Leaders Who Violate Human Rights
Our leaders should be judged by their actions, not intentions.
If you’re a Baby Boomer, you’ve been told all your life to be proud of your country. And yet, when I look at our track record, it hardly aligns with the values we claim we believe and desire to promulgate.
My career in advertising, marketing and PR has taught me a few things. One of them is that PR isn’t just words. It’s your actions that show others what you are about and what you believe.
In the global marketplace of ideas, we claim to be all about freedom and democracy. Sadly, our words ring hollow when compared to our deeds. Call it what you will, empty rhetoric or propaganda, it’s all the same thing.
I am not anti-American. I’m just a little jaded about what this nation has become over the course of my lifetime.
Yes, I realize that these stains didn’t begin after World War II. I’m all too familiar with the Trail of Tears, slavery, the eugenics movement, “Manifest Destiny” and our other sins. Americans are still convinced they’re the best. We’ve drunk the Kool-Aid and wear rose-colored glasses.
