I’ve been an on/off diarist and frequent lurker on DailyKos for closing in on a decade. Anyone who’s read any of my posts or comments known I’m a Canadian, and so I’m not directly affected by the unfolding disaster that is current American governance. Not yet anyway. I’ve avoided watching news recently because I can’t cope seeing or hearing your chief executive without going into a rage.
But now I’ve finally had it.
See that photo up top? That’s the results of hurricane Irma. One of three that have devastated the American coast, Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands. Millions are without the basic necessities of life. Thanks to the incompetence of the current US Federal Government. White supremacists are on the rise again, but it’s the black athletes who are being divisive—according to right-wing idiots. Tens of millions are facing losing their healthcare because the rich need tax cuts. Meanwhile, the two biglyist egotistical, narcassistic, psychopathic arseholes on the planet are getting ready to drop nukes on each other and countless innocents because they have inadequate….restraint? No, something that starts with a ‘p’ and rhymes with clenis.
But once again I read comments and diaries by supposed ‘good progressive Americans’ indicating that you can’t walk and chew gum at the same time—apparently Americans have to choose between letting Puerto Rico drown or stopping police from killing black people. What the ever loving fck?!?
And I constantly hear the whine, “Where are the democrats? Why aren’t they saying/doing something?” Well,perhaps they are saying and doing something (they are—a lot of somethings in fact) but but you’re corporate owned media can’t tear themselves away from their pre-defined narratives to actually tell you something useful—but that’s the fault of Democrats and Hillary. Boy, you need to show them—staying at home for the midterms is sure to work this time! (that’s snark for the snark impaired)
Now things aren’t all sunshine and roses up here in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. I lost my job 4 months ago and being in my mid-forties and a (now) digital marketing specialist it’s hard to come by work since the drop in oil prices means no one is hiring, well anything. But I have Employment Insurance, so I don’t think I’m going to lose my house. I’m on three types of medication to manage chronic pain, but I only have to pay $160 a month thanks to my country’s healthcare system. When my daughter broke her arm she got the best care available—and I didn’t have to go bankrupt. Heck, I have nothing in the bank, but am squeaking by enough to be able to promote a book I had published in May.
I get it, I’m lucky. I’m a Canadian. But you know what? If that fucker in the White House drops a nuke on Pyongyang, I’m pretty sure my 14 year old daughter and I will be impacted. So, I’ve no skin in the game. Yet.
But listen up American ‘progressives’—those who don’t hear the Democrats speaking or see them doing things; those who feel the need to pick one disaster, one atrocity, one injustice to work on and support and to hell with the rest of the people impacted by the rest of those atrocities and/or injustices. Listen closely. This is important.
Fuck off. Seriously.
How about you quit whining and make some change in the world—something positive. Because I’m pretty sure the ‘progressives’ I hear whining about the above shit that causes my blood pressure to spike are the same weak-kneed so-called liberals, or progressives who said “but, her emails” or “there’s no difference between Democrats and Republicans” or, are simply self-righteous white people who would rather pretend that the USA is #1 in all things, and are pissy now to discover that Angela frikkin-Merkel is the leader of the free world because the guy you let steal your election can’t be happy for an instant if he’s not making some other poor bastard suffer some soul-crushing ignominy. Well, that and he’s a blithering idiot that makes Stephen Harper look like a saint in comparison (and fuck you Harper for all the damage you did here during your term in office)
Please note, if you’re not one of the above described idiots, I am not speaking to or about you. You’re the type of American I like. Maybe someday you’ll be able to right the ship enough that I’ll visit the US again. Good luck and God speed.
And for those Americans who aren’t willing to sacrifice anything of any consequence to make the world a better place—well, as I said before: fuck off. Currently you’re only value is turning oxygen into something trees breathe.
Maybe you should work on that.
Cheers,
Sean Campbell
Author, Tin-Can Canucks: A Century of Canadian Destroyers
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