"Election Letter from Ohio"

[kramer]

"Election Letter from Ohio"

> >

> > It would be difficult to fully communicate my

> > disappointment in a simple e-mail. On the other hand,

> > slipping out into the hall and drowning myself in the

> > mop bucket would mean that someone else would have to

> > feed my dog.

> >

> > Kerry has not yet conceded defeat (he has now), but I have.

> > Even if someone finds that crate full of votes for Kerry

> > bobbing down the Cuyahoga River, the American people

> > have spoken, and they have sent the world a message:

> > "We're barely bright enough to chew our own food."

> >

> > Incompetence, incoherence, inarticulateness, pettiness,

> > random savagery, and ecological destruction apparently

> >do not deter the majority of Americans. Americans voted

> > overwhelmingly in favor of bigotry, amending state constitutions

> around the country to prevent same-sex couples from having any

> rights beyond the right to live on the margins of society. We

> > clearly have far more to fear from The International

> > Homosexual Conspiracy than we do from North Korean nukes

> > or the collapse of the American health care system.

> >

> > Apparently, we are truly a nation of slackjawed yokels, awed

> > only by grotesque displays of wealth and violence, beholden

> > not even to our children, since we seem content to mortgage

> > their future in favor of a $300 tax refund that we have traded for

> decent jobs, healthcare, and a just society.

> >

> > We make pious noises about worshipping a Just and

> > Merciful God, while doling out destruction and horror

> > upon the innocent, pausing only to pat ourselves on

> > the back for waging a "just" war to rid the world of

> > tyrants that audaciously aspire to exist after they lose

> > their utility to us in endless low-level conflicts to control the

> world's oil supply.

> >

> > We seem to have become cheap, venal, vulgar and petty

> > while we apparently don't have the ability to reason

> > our way out of the dilemma of taking care of the sick,

> > watching out for the elderly, and teaching our

> > children not to be credulous, callow dupes.

> >

> > To my friends in the UK, France, Germany, and anyone

> > to whom they choose to forward this, I feel that I owe you

> > an apology. It is as if I have brought an orangutan to your

> > High Tea. While he flings dung at you and tries to snatch

> > pastries from your plate, I am left wondering how I might

> > make it up to you.

> >

> > The world's richest and most powerful nation seems to

> > have lost its moral compass. We have lost interest in

> > leading by example in favor of taking by force. I

> > would like to say that I believe that one day in the

> > future America might regain its senses. Unfortunately,

> > I am not terribly optimistic.

> >

> > Only time will tell.....

[DaveH]

/dies.

 

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