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MON JAN 09, 2012 AT 01:57 PM
PST
An open letter to the people who hate Obama more than
they love America
I meet you all the time. You
hate Obama. You hate gay people. You hate black people, immigrants, Muslims,
labor unions, women who want the right to make choices concerning their bodies,
you hate em all. You hate being called racist. You hate being called a bigot.
Maybe if you talked about creating jobs more than you talk about why you hate
gay people we wouldn't call you bigots. Maybe if you talked about black people
without automatically assuming they are on food stamps while demanding their
birth certificates we wouldn't call you racist. You hate socialism and social
justice. You hate regulations and taxes and spending and the Government. You
hate.
You like war. You like torture. You like Jesus. I
don't know how in the hell any of that is compatible, but no one ever accused
you haters of being over-committed to ideological consistency. You like people
who look like you or at least hate most of the things that you hate. You hate
everything else.
Now, I know you profess to
love our country and the founding fathers (unless you are reminded that they
believed in the separation of church and state), but I need to remind you that
America is NOT what Fox News says it is. America is a melting pot, it always
has been. We are a multi-cultural amalgamation of all kinds of people, and yet
you still demonize everyone who is not a rich, white, heterosexual christian
male or his submissive and obedient wife.
You hate liberals, moderates,
hell, anyone who disagrees with Conservative dogma as espoused by Fox News and
Rush Limbaugh. You hate em.
Well, here are the facts,
Jack. If you hate the Government then you are unqualified to manage it. If you
hate gay people more than you love America than you should take your
own advice and get the hell out. There are several countries that are openly
hostile to gay people, but they are full of brown people and you don't like
them much either from what I understand. It looks like you are screwed, but
that's not what I am here to tell you.
Now that you have thrown
everything and the kitchen sink at President Obama and it still hasn't worked
you are panicking. Obama's approval ratings are still near 50% despite your
best efforts to undermine the economy and America's recovery at every step
you can. You tried to hold the American economy hostage to force America into
default on its' debts, debts that YOU rang up under Bush, so you could blame it
on Obama and it failed. You've used the filibuster more than any other Congress
ever, going so far as to vote against providing health care access to 9/11 first
responders. You remember 9/11, don't you, it's that thing you used to lie us
into a war in Iraq, and then
when Obama killed Bin Laden and ended the war in Iraq
you told people that he hates America
and wants the troops to fail. You monsters. You hate Obama with a passion,
despite the fact that he is a tax cutting, deficit reducing war President who
undermines civil rights and delivers corporate friendly watered down reforms
that benefit special interests just like a Republican. You call him a Kenyan. You
call him a socialist. You dance with your hatred singing it proudly in the rain
like it was a 1950's musical.
Frankly, you disgust me. Your
hatred nauseates me. Your bigotry offends me. Your racism revolts me.
Dear haters, I am openly
questioning your patriotism.
I think you hate gays, Obama,
black people, poor people, all of us, women, atheists and agnostics, Latinos,
Muslims, Liberals, all of us, I think you hate every one who isn't exactly like
you, and I think you hate us more than you love your country.
I think you hate gay soldiers
more than you want America
to win its wars.
I don't even think you want America to win wars, you just want America to have
wars, never ending wars and the war profiteering it generates. You love that
kind of spending, you love spending on faith based initiatives and abstinence
based sex education (George Carlin would have loved that one), you love
spending on subsidies for profitable oil corporations, you spend like drunken
sailors when you are in the White House, but if it is a Democrat then suddenly
you cheer when America doesn't get the Olympics because it might make the black
President look bad. But oooh you love your country, you say, and you want it
back. Well listen here skippy, it isn't your country, you don't own it, it
is our country, and America
is NOT the religiously extremist Foxbots who hate science, elitist professors
and having a vibrant and meaningful sex life with someone we love if Rick
Santorum doesn't approve of it. Rick Santorum isn't running for America's
fucking high school dance chaperone, he should probably just shut the hell up
about sex, but he can't because he has nothing else to run on.
Republicans can NOT win on
the issues. They've got NOTHING. All they have is a divide and conquer class
war that pits ignorant racist and bigoted people against the rest of us in a
meaningless battle of wedge issues and the already proven to fail George W.
Bush agenda again of tax cuts for the rich, deregulation, privatization and war
profiteering and nothing else, so all they can do is blame black people, gays
the government, anybody and everyone else for their own failings. The party of
personal responsibility, my ass.
But
they love multi-national corporations, just ask a gay hating and
racist religious extremist if they think Corporations are people and they will
gladly agree, but if you ask them if gay people are people they aren't so sure.
Dear haters, you are the
cruel, heartless misinformed assholes who would sell America out to Haliburton
in a heartbeat, you would rather pay ZERO taxes than you would see a newly born
baby get access to quality health care, you cheer when we discuss denying
health care to young people with preventable diseases, and you boo when we
discuss the First Ladies plan to cut back on childhood obesity. You are a cross
to carry and a flag to wrap yourself in away from being the people who Sinclair
Lewis warned us about, but I guarantee that if Fox News told you to dress that
way you would, because you are the same blind, ignorant and closed minded
dunces who drove this country into a civil war years ago because you are bound
to the notion that some men are more equal than others. In short, the reason I
proudly wear my union army hat is because of seditious sell outs like you who
constantly fuck over working class Americans so a foreign entrepreneur like
Rupert Murdoch can get a bigger tax break. If corporations are people, they are
neither American patriots nor capable of love. Just like you.
So stop wearing your hate
with pride. Stop celebrating your anti-science, anti-math ignorance. Stop using
code words to mask your bigotry like "family values", especially when
you hate my family and when you stand on the same stage as a guy who has had
three marriages or if you share a seat in the Senate with a guy who cheated on
his wife with hookers while wearing diapers. You should be ashamed. I know that
you are just doing this to motivate your misinformed hate cult base because if
they actually knew that your ideas will make them poorer than they are now,
they would never vote for you. You are doing your best to impoverish your
countrymen so rich people can get bigger tax breaks and you can keep on
delivering corporate welfare to the special interests who have bribed you, and
I am disgusted by the way you gleefully parade your hatred with aplomb. I don't
think you do love America.
At least, not as much as you hate everyone in America who isn't exactly like you.
You should think about that,
and maybe get some help.
And for the record, I do not
hate you. I am embarrassed by you and nauseated by your cruel and thoughtless
behavior and your all consuming greed, but I do not hate you. I forgive you and
I hope you can change someday, but I don't hate you. You have enough hate in
you for the rest of us as it is.
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