Of course I voted.
I was born in Baltimore, Maryland to two American citizens: one natural and one naturalized. I have an insanely high level of respect for what it means to be an American. As a good English major (in other words, one who actually knows her shit), I feel confident in my ability to say that The Constitution is one of the most perfect pieces of government literature of all time. But it is only an ideal. And I feel so disillusioned for ever believing that that ideal--so perfect in theory--could ever be fully realized.
I am an American citizen, and I don't want to live in America. As soon as I can manage the money, I am going to Europe for grad school. And, save for the people with whom I actually find myself on the same page, I will not miss a lick of this lost country.
I've grown in a lot of ways--and I've never been more sure of what's right than I am with this. I am really sickened by the ignorance of my country and its brutal hypocrisy. If it were enough to simply live in the northeast--among people who are not completely uneducated and so easily swayed by their useless emotions (namely fear)--and be separate from this unchecked Republican (and it's so much more than Republican anymore: it's evangelical conservatism, and the refusal to admit what happens beyond your own backyard) dictatorship, I would. The three branches of government are slowly being overrun by a passionately blind party, still sleeping at the desk of a dying world power. Checks and balances my ass. Mark my words: we're in for some of the hardest times this country will have ever faced since the Great Depression.
And the worst part is: it didn't have to be this way.
I am an American citizen, and I don't want to live in America. As soon as I can manage the money, I am going to Europe for grad school. And, save for the people with whom I actually find myself on the same page, I will not miss a lick of this lost country.
I've grown in a lot of ways--and I've never been more sure of what's right than I am with this. I am really sickened by the ignorance of my country and its brutal hypocrisy. If it were enough to simply live in the northeast--among people who are not completely uneducated and so easily swayed by their useless emotions (namely fear)--and be separate from this unchecked Republican (and it's so much more than Republican anymore: it's evangelical conservatism, and the refusal to admit what happens beyond your own backyard) dictatorship, I would. The three branches of government are slowly being overrun by a passionately blind party, still sleeping at the desk of a dying world power. Checks and balances my ass. Mark my words: we're in for some of the hardest times this country will have ever faced since the Great Depression.
And the worst part is: it didn't have to be this way.