It's my birthday and I couldn't sleep. Please excuse the crude language. This was an email I'd sent to my father, a fellow Democrat, just a bit ago accompanied by clips from headlines from Reuters, the AP, Huffpost, etc.
Less than a year ago we witnessed one of our major parties attempt to overthrow our nation and install a lunatic. That same lunatic is still pulling the strings of his soft minded sycophants to this day. Trump's lies have cost you a brother, me an uncle, and crippled our nation's ability to recover and overcome from this pandemic. When Biden was elected I believed that reason and sensibility had won the day and things would improve. Since then, not much has changed. The treasonous turd is still filling his drones with lies, urging them towards violence should they feel it necessary to maintain power. Teachers, healthcare workers, school board members are accosted at town halls and threatened with bodily harm for supporting common sense mask mandates. Educators are harassed over critical race theory bullshit that isn't even being taught at a grade school level, leading to a republican winning the VA governorship.
I included the clips below because they're why I no longer want to be a democrat. All are from major, respectable news outlets (or, fake news, as it's known). It was a close race. Not one fucking mention of democrats accusing republicans of cheating, or doing anything of the like. Just more of the same Woe Is Me bullshit they're known for. While the democrats attempt to play fair, argue with facts and quibble between themselves over policy issues, the criminals on the right plow forward with lies and bullshit, immune to reason, driven by hate and misinformation. Joe Biden is no savior, he's more of the same. Someone needs to stand up, call out the bullshit, punish the insurrectionists, big and small, give us some goddamn universal health care, paid child leave, affordable prescriptions, a fair justice system (gut it and cleanse it of bad apples, require a 4 yr degree and psychological screening, and liability insurance paid for by the officer like doctors have), ban stock and investment ownership for people holding public office, cap spending limits on election campaigns, no more political action committees funded by dark money, limit campaigns to 3 months before the election so the damn representative can focus on doing actual work they were elected to do.
Ok, now I'm getting a little tired, but this is how I'm choosing to start my 46th year on this planet. Democrats are pussies, they fiddle amongst themselves while the ship sinks, and allow conservatives, the fucking party that tried, and is still trying, to overthrow our fucking form of government, to win a high level race. I never thought I'd see a day where the party of law and order, of Support our Soldiers, that wears a flag as if they own it, do exactly the opposite of what they claim to represent. Can't say I'm surprised, but it's disgusting nonetheless. Until the democratic party grows a spine and is willing to lie, cheat, and steal if necessary to provide our citizens what so many other developed countries already enjoy, I'm taking a break from politics and just hoarding guns and bunkering down, ha, ha.
