Trump Moves to Gut the Post Office

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5. I do not wish to be a "countryman" with the GOP agenda as a basis for society.

Seriously.

This is not hyperbolic or reflex reaction. I want nothing to do with any part of their desires, philosophy or hideous agenda. I believe in a country that cares for its people, not its corporations alone. I believe in public responsibilities like educating our children and populace, defending our families and communities, incarcerating and rehabilitating criminals as a SOCIAL cost (NOT a profit center), roads and infrastructure upkeep and improvements, and caring for the sick and the aged as a part of the social contract.

I believe in regulation to control the baser instincts and pulls of a purely capitalist system.
I believe in equality under the law for EVERYONE - full stop...no qualifiers, no special exclusions. NO EXCEPTIONS.
I believe in a public good and a right to privacy in my effects and papers and home.
I believe in the Constitution, the Bill of Rights and the system of checks and balances.
I believe in the scientific method, and the data-based, peer-reviewed opinions of scientists in all areas of their expertise.
I believe that one can have religious beliefs or no beliefs and should be treated equally in private and public.

As near as I can tell, NONE of these positions or beliefs is reflected back at me from the right. Their core is servitude to the corporate and wealthy overlords and subservience in quest of a bit of extra crumbs from the master's table. Their representatives and congressional appointees and judicial appointees are abhorrent and malignant. Their lack of compassion and desire to punish the poor for their circumstances and plight is disgusting and base.

In short, I have no desire to label such monsters as "countrymen". I cannot find the grace of RFK to forgive and to seek deeper bonds with such people. I cannot excuse the hurt and the anguish and destruction they have wrought on this nation since 1981.

I want them to secede. I want them to leave. I want to start over with a nation of like minded individuals who may disagree on principles and specifics, but not on fundamentals. We in the Democratic Party can ALWAYS find things we disagree about internally, but those disagreements are not whether or not we should inflict more unnecessary pain on citizens to benefit a tiny minority of the populace.

I just want this to all end already, before it turns bloody, before more lives are lost and sacrificed to the egos of tiny men with enormous bellies and bankrupt souls. I just want OUR country back. I want to see America be "America" again.