Dear Americans
To all the Americans on my flist, you have the chance to make history today, to get rid of a government and political party that for 8 years have played god on the world stage and only succeeded in making the world a less, not more, safe place. Who's fiscal policies have led to the financial crisis we now see ourselves in. Who's social policies have created a great divide between the haves and the have nots and between gay and straight.
Today you can vote for change and a chance to gain back respect for your government and country both internally and internationally. You can vote to end the war in Iraq, end inequality (Californian's especially, Vote NO on 8 and NO on 4!!) and to try and establish a better healthcare, welfare and fiancial system for your country.
All I can do is wear my blue shirt and hope, but you can actually make a change, make people's lives better. So, please vote and make a difference.
ETA Via myrthe, because it warrants wider reading than it may get in my comments. From http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/11/3/10324/6853/69/650813
"And yet, we can do nothing, any of us lost Britkids, and that's the worst part. It makes no sense to me. In hurricanes and fires and days of crisis there are a thousand different charities fighting to get to me, to break my heart with tales of suffering and siphon away my student loan through my tears. But when the world is on the brink of being changed from the powerless norm that is all I've ever known, I cannot donate a single penny. Because this election is yours and only yours, the websites tell me. Rubbish. It's ours too, and yet no-one will accept that.
I'll be staying up on election night. But that's a pointless gesture, a meaningless sacrifice. I just find it so hard to face the fact that this election is so completely out of my hands.
Dear Americans, then, whom I have never met, and yet whom I love with all my heart. This is my plea to you. Do it for me. Get out the vote with every bit of strength you have.
Do what we cannot, myself and my friends and all the other Britkids from a thousand different backgrounds, who wait and hope. Because we may not be your fellow citizens, but we are your honorary fellow liberals. And we're with you."
Today you can vote for change and a chance to gain back respect for your government and country both internally and internationally. You can vote to end the war in Iraq, end inequality (Californian's especially, Vote NO on 8 and NO on 4!!) and to try and establish a better healthcare, welfare and fiancial system for your country.
All I can do is wear my blue shirt and hope, but you can actually make a change, make people's lives better. So, please vote and make a difference.
ETA Via myrthe, because it warrants wider reading than it may get in my comments. From http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/11/3/10324/6853/69/650813
"And yet, we can do nothing, any of us lost Britkids, and that's the worst part. It makes no sense to me. In hurricanes and fires and days of crisis there are a thousand different charities fighting to get to me, to break my heart with tales of suffering and siphon away my student loan through my tears. But when the world is on the brink of being changed from the powerless norm that is all I've ever known, I cannot donate a single penny. Because this election is yours and only yours, the websites tell me. Rubbish. It's ours too, and yet no-one will accept that.
I'll be staying up on election night. But that's a pointless gesture, a meaningless sacrifice. I just find it so hard to face the fact that this election is so completely out of my hands.
Dear Americans, then, whom I have never met, and yet whom I love with all my heart. This is my plea to you. Do it for me. Get out the vote with every bit of strength you have.
Do what we cannot, myself and my friends and all the other Britkids from a thousand different backgrounds, who wait and hope. Because we may not be your fellow citizens, but we are your honorary fellow liberals. And we're with you."