A Letter To The Right and Left

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Dear U.S. People:

I don't know what to think about these elections, quite frankly. The polls really blew it, as usual. I think Kerry is due to concede later today, I heard rumblings of that. Oh wait, he DID concede. I gotta pay more attention.

Want to know how I feel about it? I am absolutely sick to my stomach. There is a cultural war going on in the United States, and it shames me that in these modern times, we find ourselves embroiled in this. The American people have been lulled by a lazy media, and quite frankly, Mr. Bush and his administration have zero accountability to the people. It just makes me sick.

I can't point to ONE thing that this president has done right, with the exception of maybe educational standards. He was wrong about tax cuts growing jobs. He ignored terrorism despite the warnings of the incoming administration, concentrating instead on missle defense. He did the right thing toppling Afghanistan, but didn't follow through. Iraq was a huge mistake, and a criminal one at that. His justifications for the war in Iraq (I am talking the original justifications, prior to him trying to change positions once the fragile house of cards upon which he built his case came down) were proven to be an amazing load of bullshit. Please don't give me the "Sadaam was a bad guy argument." That is NOT what we were told, what Congress was told, what the rest of the world was told. That was what the justification changed to when this proved to be so much crap. NO imminent threat. We have no real allies to deal with the security issues in Iraq (woops, I forgot Poland), and have lost an amazing amount of goodwill and credibility in the world. We have caused the deaths of OVER 100,000 people, including 1100 of our own soldiers for this man's mistakes. And the post-victory situation is proving to be a major cluster-fuck as well, as the insurgency continues a war of attrition against our troops, and terrorist organizations pour into Iraq as a new breeding ground for radicals. I get sickened when I watch the news and see these pundits trying to spin 300 tons of missing HX, first saying "We don't KNOW when it went missing, it went missing BEFORE we invaded." Then when ABC news footage shows the stuff sealed and secure AFTER the invasion, it is "Oh, we only lost a small fraction of all of the bad munitions and explosives that were there." A pound of the same fucking explosive took down a jetliner, for crying out loud. And now this is in the hands of insurgents or worse.

And Bin Laden taunts us, looking pretty damned healthy, and pretty in touch. He obviously tracks our media quite effectively, and can still make videos. So much for being holed up in a cave somewhere, effectively neutered. That he ain't. Feel safer?

And we fuck our economy even more, spending billions upon billions. And Halliburton has gotten their hands slammed in the cookie jar how many times now?

I am sickened at the job market. I am resentful for how long I was unemployed, and how after two years of working for this company, I can't get a raise because they can't afford it. I resent that my tech industry jobs are going overseas, and nothing is being done to stem that flow. I called Microsoft tech support Monday afternoon, and talked to some guy with curry breath in India, at 4:30 PM EST.

I am sick that fiscal responsibility has gone down the tubes. They cut taxes, but they spend like drunken democrats. Unbelievable. Maybe Nader was right, and they are ALL the same.

I am sick of paying over $2.00 a gallon for gas, and some $120 a week just so I can get to work.


America gets dumber and dumber. America is in for four more years of division. I really wish the Democrats would grow a set of balls and drag Bush around the way Repugs did Clinton. Lots of shit was tossed at Clinton, and the only thing that stuck was a bit of spooge on a dress. Bush has been given pass after pass, and the pink tutu democrats are too big of pussies to play opposition party. They gave him a pass on his military service. They let the fucker testify about 9/11 behind closed doors, with Dick holding his hand, and not under oath. Clinton testified about oral sex ON tape AND under oath. Valerie Plame's "outer" has still not been found, and what do you bet indictments will not come down for another couple of years. They gave him a pass on "intelligence failures" in lead-up to Iraq.


I am sick that Republicans have hijacked the flag, and hijacked patriotism, and warped it into this, support our leader and his wars, or you aren't patriotic, and you don't like the troops. Funny, I thought responsibly deploying them as a last resort so that they don't get killed, and putting them on the ground with the right equipment up front WAS supporting them.

Most of all, I am sick to death of ignorance and superstition having a place in political policy, ideology, etc. Voting the whims of an invisible cloud being that may or may not exist, and subjecting me to the tyranny of those beliefs if I don't share them infuriates me. I look at the gay marriage thing, and I am completely disgusted and sickened that the party of little government, states rights, etc. would push through in 11 states this thing to amend the constitution against gay marriage.

I am sick to fucking death of being told by these religious and right wing fuckers that I am damned, that I am an abomination, that I am evil and going to hell because of my CHOSEN lifestyle. I am tired of being told I am no good, that my love and my relationships are not valid, when these fuckers can't manage to stay with their wives. I am sick of the prejudice, of having to be so very careful to tell who I am, else I will be shunned or have my ass kicked or worse. And now they are trying to change the constitution to better suit their fairy tales and mythology. I renounce their god, I renounce their religion, at this point I think all religion is utter bullshit, and I refuse to believe in it, because it doesn't believe in me. But it sure is a great thing, when combined with terra terra all the time, to get the bottom feeders to support your views. And leveling religion with the same gravity as science is just the most shameful absurdity, but yet time and again, we have seen ideology dictate science, rather than the other way around with this crew in power now.

I was standing in line at the polls behind some woman who claimed that Bush was chosen by God, and that she was doing God's bidding. Do you know how scary that is, and how absolutely fucking insane that is? The monarchs of Europe claimed divine providence, and we packed up and moved to the New World as a result. Can people really be so amazingly ignorant?

Can abortion and fags trying to marry each other really be of greater importance than 100,000 people dead already in a war, terrorists that hate us, and no way out?

Redneck America, ain't it pretty? I am so fucking ashamed. This country used to be about aspiring, growing, becoming smarter, a place of hope. Now it is a place of division, a place of derision, and the lunatics are running the asylum.

That about sums up my feelings of the election. We are rolling right back into the dark ages, I don't feel safer, and I don't feel that my country wants me here. I'm a dirty subhuman faggot, after all, and by some intangible thing "morally wrong."

God Bless America? IF getting shit upon is a blessing, than I am the most blessed person out there.