When I woke up in 2004, and my shame overcame me, and I looked at the Democratic party as an option for the first time since college, I found this site. Wow, I thought, these people do not sound like crazy lunatics. They sound just like me for the most part. Smart. Informed. Disgusted with what is going on in this country. Frightened for the future. Wandering the lands of hope and despair, fear and certainty, anger and joy. But all certain of one thing: today's Republican party does not have the best interest of the average American in mind or in its collective heart.
And you have all saved my sanity, as I am surrounded by those who will not see the truth, and those who are afraid to see the truth. You have given me information to use every time I go to the deli, every time I fill up my gas tank, every time I am at the supermarket. Information to use to spread the truth to the average person, who does not have the time and inclination to follow all of the lies that the Republicans spin. And I truly think I have made a difference. I see it in my coworkers. I see it in the poll numbers. I think we have all made a difference. And I love you all for that.
I love you for accepting me when I was an ex-Republican, licking her wounds over being so damn fooled by a bunch of clowns. I'm smart, I thought. I listen to the radio (uh-oh, wrong radio!) How could this have happened??
And I love you all for holding my virtual hand when the criminals used the tragedy of 9/11, my husband's tragedy, my friends' tragedy, my city's tragedy, and really, our whole nation's tragedy, as fodder for their dreams of destruction and domination. You could have all spit in my face. I was complicit in 2000 in bringing these criminals in. But you did not. Because you are Democrats, who, by definition, are generally good and kind individuals.
So thank you. Give yourselves a pat on the back. If I did not have this site, if I had to watch the sham I saw in the House yesterday, the lies and deceit smilingly and willfully spewed, and did not have a place to share and decompress, I would think I had lost my mind. But I have not. I am seeing the truth. And you have all helped me see it. Even those with whom I have had strong disagreements over the time I have been here. So thank you.
And keep fighting. We are right. We are honorable. And we will prevail.