Nation of wusses

People are wusses. I'm talking about those whiny, crying, annoying, simple, egotistical types who just can't fathom a life in which maybe their views are wrong and someone else's views are right. So they spend every waking minute trying to explain why they are right and you are wrong and how, if you don't agree, you are stupid.\nUnfortunately, this definition fits way too many people in this country and on this campus. \nExhibit A: A group called the Students' Smokefree Coalition managed to convince the administration to look into having a smoking ban on all of campus because apparently you're going to be killed if you walk by someone who just so happens to have a cigarette and are exposed to smoke for three seconds.\nExhibit B: Despite raising millions of dollars for the University in only two years, faculty members are basically forcing President Herbert out two years before his original contract is finished because he didn't get a chancellor when they wanted one and because he didn't listen to their needs when they wanted him to.\nExhibit C: The useless bickering between Democrats and Republicans.\nI could go on and give other examples, but I think you get the picture: People are wusses. That so many Americans are wusses doesn't surprise me. This country was built by wusses. \nThink about it: King James I was a wuss because he said people in England could only worship in a certain way. As a result, pilgrims moved to the Netherlands. When the people there weren't "religious" enough for them, the pilgrims showed their true wuss colors and moved to America. When they got here, they became even bigger wusses because, heaven forbid, someone else just happened to beat them here by a few hundred years. So they killed many of them and took most of their land. Then when more people came to the colonies and the work got too hard, they brought these same natives back to do their work. Years later, once they had worked most of the natives to death and were still wusses, they got Africans and worked them to death, too. Once the slaves were released, they still acted like wusses, claiming, "You're not American. You're not even human because you don't look like me, so you don't deserve things like an education, good housing and decent jobs."\nI love my country, but it's a country of wusses. Look at current events. Our views are right and yours are wrong, so we as Americans are going to bully you into our form of democracy and capitalist economy. And if you don't agree, poo on you.\nPlease remember, there's a thin line between voicing your opinion and trying to do what's best for the country, and turning into wusses. Please, don't become wusses.