An Open Letter
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An Open Letter To American Secessionists
It started as a few muttered complaints the day after the election, but the foot-stomping tantrum chorus of folks threatening to take their ball and go home if we don't agree to play by their rules is growing.
"This is not my America" you lament! "This is no longer the same country I know and love!"
Huh. You may be right.
Because frankly, if you believe that America in the 21st century should function under the same assumptions and with the same values as America did in the 18th century- then no, this actually isn't your America any more.
If you believe that "Freedom of religion" means that you have the right to make decisions about health care, family planning, equal rights, evolution and education for people who do not share your religion- you're in the wrong place.
If you think you have the right to say who other people can love, this isn't that place.
If you believe that bullying and abuse is ok- as long as you do it for Jesus, and that kids are better off in orphanages than with gay parents and that rape shouldn't be an 'excuse' for an abortion because hey, some girls rape easy… this is not your America. If you believe that the working poor, pensioners and veterans in America just want 'free stuff' but the wealthy demand their personal income tax cuts for the good of the nation- no, this is not your America.
If you believe that black people only vote for a black man because of race but white people never vote for a white guy because of his race… if you believe that a 90 year old veteran who has been voting for 50 years should be denied a ballot because he no longer has a driver's license… then it's really not your America any more. If you believe that having your candidate criticized is abusive mud-slinging but it's ok for you to call the other candidate "The Antichrist" then yeah, you may be in the wrong place.
And if you believe that it's not possible for your candidate to lose an election unless the "urban" people cheated…by voting…believe that an acceptable way to win is to try to stop as many people as possible from voting, that "bipartisan' means that all those other people do things your way and that the "United" part of "United States of America" only applies when your party is running the show… then you fundamentally don't understand what America is.
It's not a country where you can just 'opt out' when things don't go your way, and where a bunch of people whining that they want to leave will make us turn our backs on our principles in order to appease and accomodate them. It's not a place where beginning a sentence with "I'm not a racist' makes it ok to call the President a ni**er. It's not a country where a rich, privileged old man can attack a young woman's character in vicious and almost pornographic ways simply because he disagrees with her politics- and not suffer consequences. It's not a place where we believe that a helping hand in the middle of a natural disaster should come with a pricetag or that hungry children in a land of plenty should hunt through dumpsters for food because if they ask for bread, they're lazy.
It's not a nation where we think it's ok for poor people to die from treatable diseases because millionaire CEO's don't want to cut into their profits. It's not a nation with endless tolerance for those who disdain science and reason or for the hipocrisy of decrying 'government 'freeloading' by other people when you have your hands in the cookie jar.
And thankfully, it's not a nation where bitter, obscenely wealthy men can buy themselves an election. Not yet.
And now you say you want to leave. That's strange, because you are the same people who yell "America- love it or leave it!" at us every time we're trying to fix what's broken around here. You think it's unpatriotic for us to feel dissatisfied with the status quo Now, it seems like you don't love America enough to stick around and work together. That's too bad.
Look, we're not trying to run you out, but you are certainly free to go. I don't think many of you have actually thought this out from an economic, educational or military perspective, but critical thinking doesn't seem to be your strong suit anyway.
Uh, no- you don't get to take your state with you. Sorry, but that 'Constitution' thing you're always going on about says these states stay together. And you don't get to keep the flag you're always waving: that one belongs to America too.
But you can leave, if that's really what you want.
The border is that-a-way...
Tracy Lynn Stout Meisky
Democrats Organizing For America
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And YES, I'm SHOUTING!!!!!!
This essay is FABULOUS!!! Another kind of American manifesto. Those who whined and wailed "I Want MY A-MARE-ica BACK!!! "YOUR America?" Which America was that? The one you saw Beaver Cleaver living in, on TV every week? The one you grew up believing in - that Ozzie and Harriet and Jim and Margaret Anderson lived in, with their perfect kids Dave and Little Ricky, and Princess, Kitten, and Bud? THAT America? I often enjoy pointing out that THAT America, back in the 50s and early 60s, where good ol' Jim Anderson went off with his hat and his briefcase to work every morning - just might have been a union member. Because back then, UNIONS made it possible for Dad to go off to work and leave Mom at home, because Dad brought home a paycheck that could support a family of four (or five, in the case of "Father Knows Best"
in a nice house in a nice suburb where every other Dad in the neighborhood could leave Mom at home when he went to work in the morning - earning HIS paycheck that supported HIS family just fine, by itself. And even if they weren't in a union themselves, unions around them made for a COLLECTIVE rising tide that EVERYBODY was able to enjoy. Unions provided a DECENT minimum income, WITH benefits and pensions and weekends off and safe and reasonable working conditions and time-and-a-half if you had to put in overtime. God they HATE it when that particular and inconvenient FACT gets pushed in their faces. Doesn't conform to the current narrative about how lousy and shitty and icky unions supposedly are.
I LOVE this essay! It is Truth Incarnate! NO, assholes. If THAT is the "America" you yearn for, then your heads are up your collective asses. THAT "America" deserves to be buried deeply in the moldy, musty, moth-eaten past, and FORGOTTEN.
