Damnit all.
You know, I was willing to forgive for these past four years. More people wanted Al Gore in office than Bush. It wasn't really America's fault. They chose the right guy, but the SCOTUS moved in a different direction. Fine, whatever. The country had a chance to redeem itself. I had faith. I was looking forward to the election. I voted happily.
It's gone now.
America has chosen to go down the path of extreme self-interest (to the point of not arrogance, but lunacy), a path of unprovoked aggression, a path of ignorant hate for those different from you...you've chosen George W. Bush. You've not chosen the Republican party, but the Neo-conservatives of Wolfowitz and Cheney. You've chosen the radical right wet dreams of John Ashcroft and Donald Rumsfeld. "Bush is a man of God," you say, because he believes that you must hate your friends and your family if they don't fall lock-in-step behind your lifestyle choices. "Bush keeps us safe," you say, because he attacks countries unprovoked, lies directly to your face about it, and turns the single worst tragedy to occur on our soil since our wipe-out of an entire race in to a reason to secure oil and revenge. And you went along with it. You turned the other cheek. They're all Arabs, right? Besides, the terrorists are killing our troops over there, so they can't attack us here. In an extremely evil way, in the darkest, blackest cackles of my heart, I almost hope you're wrong. Not because it would justify my own views, that would be outright wrong, but because then you'd have no one else to blame. Not Clinton, not Hussein, no one. Just yourself for pushing that touch screen, marking that check box, or whatever it is you did.
I want you to know, Bush voters, if anything goes wrong, it's your fault. The President himself has never admitted to making a mistake, so the buck stops with you. You had your warnings for the past few years and you ignored them gleefully. And for the life of me...the words just won't come. The anger I hold for you right now for your willfull blindness won't manifest itself properly in to words.
I'm not going to spend the next four years saying "Don't blame me, I voted for Kerry." There's no point. Let it be understood right now. It's your fault. Yours. Your glorious leader won't take the blame, so you will. I don't want to hear a single complaint from you, because I'm sure when the sky falls, you'll be sitting in stunned silence mirroring your hero's reaction on September 11th. And maybe, just maybe, you'll be thinking about what you did to this country.
-- Imran
It's gone now.
America has chosen to go down the path of extreme self-interest (to the point of not arrogance, but lunacy), a path of unprovoked aggression, a path of ignorant hate for those different from you...you've chosen George W. Bush. You've not chosen the Republican party, but the Neo-conservatives of Wolfowitz and Cheney. You've chosen the radical right wet dreams of John Ashcroft and Donald Rumsfeld. "Bush is a man of God," you say, because he believes that you must hate your friends and your family if they don't fall lock-in-step behind your lifestyle choices. "Bush keeps us safe," you say, because he attacks countries unprovoked, lies directly to your face about it, and turns the single worst tragedy to occur on our soil since our wipe-out of an entire race in to a reason to secure oil and revenge. And you went along with it. You turned the other cheek. They're all Arabs, right? Besides, the terrorists are killing our troops over there, so they can't attack us here. In an extremely evil way, in the darkest, blackest cackles of my heart, I almost hope you're wrong. Not because it would justify my own views, that would be outright wrong, but because then you'd have no one else to blame. Not Clinton, not Hussein, no one. Just yourself for pushing that touch screen, marking that check box, or whatever it is you did.
I want you to know, Bush voters, if anything goes wrong, it's your fault. The President himself has never admitted to making a mistake, so the buck stops with you. You had your warnings for the past few years and you ignored them gleefully. And for the life of me...the words just won't come. The anger I hold for you right now for your willfull blindness won't manifest itself properly in to words.
I'm not going to spend the next four years saying "Don't blame me, I voted for Kerry." There's no point. Let it be understood right now. It's your fault. Yours. Your glorious leader won't take the blame, so you will. I don't want to hear a single complaint from you, because I'm sure when the sky falls, you'll be sitting in stunned silence mirroring your hero's reaction on September 11th. And maybe, just maybe, you'll be thinking about what you did to this country.
-- Imran