Reply #33: To everyone outside of the US

[Aunt Anti-bush]

I am a female who was born in America and have always lived here. To anyone who may not understand why things have gotten so out of hand, here is what I think. I grew up in the so called, "American Dream". My family was middle class and we had a nice house and nice things. Nothing fancy and we did have some hard times, but we always got through it. The entire time I was in school we rarely touched on REAL issues of government in our history classes and government classes. Instead, we were taught about every other country and their problems and basically I believed that the United States had no real problems internally. I was raised to be proud to live in the "greatest country in the world." I was raised to feel sorry for people in other countries who didn't have the same freedoms I did. Anyway, I grew up and went to work and started a family. I voted for Clinton and Clinton again and all seemed well with the world. I voted for Gore and went to bed on the night of that election knowing full well that Gore had won and that we'd be at peace with the world for 4 more years. (Not that we really ever were totally at peace, but that is what I'd always been taught.) I wake up and Bush is the president instead. Now, I am quite intelligent and I know for certain that something was rigged and that Bush could not be our president. So did many other Americans, but to anyone living outside of the US who says we were complacent and didn't object strong and firm, you are correct. But, think about it. Why would we? Big deal, politics really isn't that much of an issue for most people here who were just working and living their lives and enjoying this fabulous country. So Bush won. A lot of people were outraged and angry but what are you going to do? Write a letter that no one will ever read? So, complacent, we all were. I just accepted it as a bunch of crap and went on with my life.

One day I was sent home from work with the impression that we had come under some major attack on 9-11. I couldn't believe it and to be quite honest even though not too much scares me, I was scared to death that day. Our bosses made it seem as if someone had waged war on American soil, which I seriously NEVER in a million years would have imagined. I was raised to feel safe here, too, of course.

I will never forget the short drive home that day. There was NO one on the highway. I mean NO one. I was shaking so hard I could barely drive and there was one thing on my mind that morning. BUSH. Somehow, I had the feeling that if we hadn't been such a complacent bunch of idiots and allowed Bush to steal the election, whatever this was wouldn't be happening.

Since 9-11 many Americans have woken up and pulled their heads out of their asses, so to speak, including myself. But now we're left with how to get out of this nightmare. We write letters now, many of them. We make phone calls now, a lot of them. Still, nothing happens and do you know why? Our congress is NOT listening to what the voters are saying. Our media isn't responding when we complain that we'll boycott for republican bias. Our freedoms are slowly being torn away by an administration that feeds us this bs about protecting us. Our ONLY chance here is to vote for 'anybody but Bush' in 2004 and I can pretty much guarantee that if he is re-elected in the same manner as before there will not be the utter complacency as seen before.

I can only hope that the world wakes up and realizes that NOT all Americans believe the crap we're fed by the media now, even though most of us did before 9-11. I can only pray that the world doesn't think that we're all behind Bush because we are not. The ONLY people I know who are pro-Bush are the idiots who make so much money that they can't figure out where to spend it all and why should they be concerned with the rest of the world? They're still living the "American Dream" or so they think. One good thing is that some of our letters and telephone calls must be finally making their point because I have seen some change in the media, little by little and with that, hopefully those who still have their heads up their asses will soon emerge to the truth and Bush will have no one left on his side except the "God" he believes he's hearing speak to him on a daily basis.

A great many of us already know the truth and we're scared to death for our country and for the world thanks to GW. So believe me when I say that if given a 2nd chance (and I certainly hope we're not given that chance) we'd all protest loudly and clearly if GW was elected again in that strange way he was elected the first time. We had no reason to before, but he's certainly given us plenty of reasons to voice our concerns now.

Please, if you're not from America, know that a great many of us here are parents and we want what is right for the world when we look at our babies' faces, just like you do. We just didn't realize how very much one administration could affect our total government and the entire world before Bush got us into all of these messes.