Comedian Michael Ian Black says former President Donald Trump may leave the United States even if he loses the 2024 election.
“Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country,” John F. Kennedy once said. It may be one of the most iconic phrases uttered by an American president, but according to Michael Ian Black, it’s “total BS.”
“The truth is, most of us are here by chance. We find ourselves thrust into a world not of our making, nor of our choosing. The fact that I’m in this particular country at this particular time is nothing more than a stroke of good fortune. So why do I owe a single, solitary debt to this piece of land that I’m on?” I wrote this: daily beast.
Despite his success, Michael Ian Black feels he owes nothing to the country he has “let down so many people”, and he later admitted this. He likened the “JFK model” of civics to a family in which he believed the family was too dysfunctional to deal with important matters, and everyone devoted their time and effort to improving the household.
“Yes, I’m grateful for the opportunities I’ve had in life. But just as I can say that the macaroni and cheese I made for lunch was given to me by Kraft,” I can’t honestly say it’s a given. I paid for the macaroni and cheese, and I paid for America,” he wrote. “And America continues to disappoint me.”
After considering a list of obligations that he feels the United States has failed to uphold, from security to health care to education to infrastructure, Michael Ian Black concludes that since the Cold War, the United States has failed to establish a coherent identity, and that the United States is slowly shifting away from its He laments that he is no longer able to establish his identity. By becoming a “war machine sponsored by Donald McDonald,” we will lose the values we hold sacred.
Comedian Michael Ian Black during an interview with host Seth Meyers on June 19, 2018 — (Lloyd Bishop/NBCU Photobank/NBCUniversal via Getty)
“The values we claim to uphold are democracy, freedom and equality. The same values we seek to force other countries to embrace are not practiced at home. We are the most free. “It is not the most democratic, most democratic, or most equal country,” he wrote. “far cry.”
To his credit, Michael Ian Black has joined other liberals who have vowed to leave America in the past because they believe they always speak from a position of privilege. is drawing the line. He even scolds those who advocate such causes before attending glitzy events like the Met Gala. Ultimately, he says, the key to impending deportation lies not in political candidates (though he acknowledges a deeper problem), but in whether America can actually improve.
“It’s becoming less and less important who wins in November. Who can change the direction of this shambling, sclerotic nation in four years? In eight minutes? “What can we do to reinvigorate and redefine it? Do we have to start another damned world war for Americans to find purpose?” he asks.
He concluded his op-ed with a callback to Kennedy, asking flatly, “What can my country do for me?”
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