It frosts me. It burns me up. It makes my stomach churn. The bile rise in my throat.
The ignorance or self-destructive idiocy or evil obdurateness or WHATEVER the hell it is that has so many of my fellow Americans ready to pull the lever for four more years of shitting on the United States -- the insanity of an informed voter who is middle class and not an end-times fundamentalist, voting for McCain/Palin -- it slays me.
But what REALLY gets my flaming goat is this:
While I abhor the whining and hand-wringing and day-to-day loss of faith in the Obama campaign expressed by many on this site, I recognize that I hate it because it ignites my own fear that with the best candidate in my lifetime, there is still a possibility that we may lose. I cannot bear to think this, and I want all progressives to remain calm, steely fighters right on through Election Day. Failure is not an option.
I so appreciate all the hard work and money being contributed by all of you. But please, please, I beg you: I never, ever, ever never ever want to hear again, "If America is this stupid, if McCain somehow is elected, then we deserve it."
I can't answer for YOU, or anyone else, but I most certainly do NOT deserve to have this destructive, inane, unethical and incompetent Republican administration foisted on me for one more day, let alone four years. Why do people SAY this? "Well then we deserve it."
Stop it! Please! Good, hard-working people don't DESERVE to have our civil rights infringed; our environment bespoiled; our economy failing. We don't DESERVE to be tied to the deaths of so many thousand innocent Iraqi HUMANS, or the avoidable deaths of our own military troops doing what they're told to do.
We don't deserve to wallow in the trough of despondency just because so many of our fellow citizens are "low-information voters," too lazy or uninformed to figure out the obvious: that the present-day Republican party is cynical, criminally corrupt, incompetent, contemptuous of the rule of law, and dominated by thuggish neocons and religious extremists.
I do what I can to inform people; I support the Obama campaign in a variety of ways. I love my country and I fear for it, and I most emphatically do not DESERVE any of the soul-cringing slop that has been dished out for the last eight years. I'm not swallowing any of it.