Dear Republicans,
Fuck you.
What are you trying to do? Actively destroy the country? Civilization? The world? I'm not talking to the politicians. I'm not talking to George or Condi or Dick.
I'm talking to you, Joe.
What the fuck is wrong with you? You voted for a man who has never done anything but fail. Twice. The war in Iraq? That's your fault. The economic meltdown? Your fault. The fact that I have to take off my fucking shoes every time I get on an airplane? Your fault, Joe. You and your idiot friends gave these people the power. You marched into the darkness with reckless abandon and you took us all with you.
And why? Did they say they'd make the big, bad gays go away? Did they? Did they say they'd stop abortion? Have they done thing the first to stop abortion? Or did they use scary words? Did they say "liberal" and "socialist"? Fucking moron. Did you ever bother to look any of these words up? Did you ever stop to think? Are you scared Joe? Are you too scared to vote for the people who would spend, spend, spend? Too scared to vote for the people who would take away your liberties? Too scared to vote for the people who would lie to you? Run up deficits? Get your neighbors and your family killed in a foreign country?
Well guess what, Joe. You already did. Over and over. You voted for the people who kept yelling words you thought were bad. And they made everything you're afraid of come true.
I'm sorry Joe, if you feel threatened by people who aren't the same bright pink hue as you, but sooner or later you gotta face up to the fact that the people who have hurt you over the last decade are exactly that color also. It's the bright pink ones who made your jobs go away, the bright pink ones who have killed you compatriots, robbed your retirement funds, ran up the price of gas and heating oil. They're not your friends, Joe. They never were. They hardly even pretend to be any more. They hate you, Joe. They think you an idiot and a sucker, easy to cow, easy to scare, easy to whip into a nationalistic fervor, and easy to placate.
Apparently you don't care about the issues. You don't care that the Republicans have been taking your money and giving it to their friends for years now. You don't care that you've been deprived of your right to privacy. You don't care that the assholes you keep voting for keep robbing you and the country you claim to love so much.
Hell. You don't even believe it's happening. You feel no need to look at facts. They've created a bubble for you to live in. A bubble where their lies are truth. A bubble where critical thought gets you kicked out, lest you contaminate the other inmates. But you don't care. You wear your ignorance like a blanket, shouting until you're red in the face at the foreigners and the godless and the socialists and all the other things that you don't understand, but that never hurt you as much as "your own people".
This isn't a football game, Joe. They're not "your team". They're not your friends. They never were. And the bad people? The "socialists" and the "liberals"? Well, Joe. We were on your side all along. We've been standing up for your freedom, your wealth, your privacy, and your rights all along. Even while your pundits made up stories about us, associating us with terrorists and Marxists and Swedes (Swedes? Seriously?), we've been fighting for you, Joe. For you.
We're not your enemy, Joe. You are.