Because I'm a patriot, I have some questions for you all.
Do you live in a country where law enforcement can come and take people away and hold them indefinitely, denying them the right of habeas corpus?
Do you live in a country whose military practices torture and feels that the Geneva Conventions are more guidelines than rules??
Do you live in a country involved in a war that was started on the basis of a lie? A war in which over 54,000 human beings--a very conservative number taking into account what I could find of both military and civilian deaths on each side; in case it matters, Iraqi civilian deaths make up the vast majority of that number--have lost their lives and countless more have been injured?
Do you live in a country whose leader turned his back on one of its major cities in its time of need?
Do you live in a country reeling as it faces its highest level of debt ever?
Do you live in a country that doesn't treat all of its citizens equally?
Do you live in a country where the ruling party harasses and misleads voters right before the election because they are so desperate to maintain their hold on the government?
If the answer to this is "yes" then I have to ask you a very simple question:
What are you going to do about it?
The Republicans have, in the past, described the Founding Fathers and the Continental Army as a group of citizen-patriots who put their lives on the line so we could have the freedoms we have today. While I am leery of that kind of language--somehow I don't know what my ancestor who fought in that war would think about me living in sin with a Black woman, but it probably wouldn't be what he was fighting for--it is the truth. Once upon a time, people died so that we could have this country
So you know? It's not like I'm asking you to grab the musket off the mantle and put your life on the line.
I'm just asking you to vote.
Do you live in a country whose military practices torture and feels that the Geneva Conventions are more guidelines than rules??
Do you live in a country involved in a war that was started on the basis of a lie? A war in which over 54,000 human beings--a very conservative number taking into account what I could find of both military and civilian deaths on each side; in case it matters, Iraqi civilian deaths make up the vast majority of that number--have lost their lives and countless more have been injured?
Do you live in a country whose leader turned his back on one of its major cities in its time of need?
Do you live in a country reeling as it faces its highest level of debt ever?
Do you live in a country that doesn't treat all of its citizens equally?
Do you live in a country where the ruling party harasses and misleads voters right before the election because they are so desperate to maintain their hold on the government?
If the answer to this is "yes" then I have to ask you a very simple question:
What are you going to do about it?
The Republicans have, in the past, described the Founding Fathers and the Continental Army as a group of citizen-patriots who put their lives on the line so we could have the freedoms we have today. While I am leery of that kind of language--somehow I don't know what my ancestor who fought in that war would think about me living in sin with a Black woman, but it probably wouldn't be what he was fighting for--it is the truth. Once upon a time, people died so that we could have this country
So you know? It's not like I'm asking you to grab the musket off the mantle and put your life on the line.
I'm just asking you to vote.