omgwtf!

I’m going to wait till Monday, re-read it, do a final edit, and then send it to every Democratic senator, governor, and member of Congress.

Man, fuck the Bush administration.

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It is time for the Democratic party to wake up and do something about what is happening to the United States and her people.

For five years, this country has been waiting for you to take leadership. You allowed the Republican party to steal two presidential elections, and you raised not a whisper of meaningful protest or dissent. Instead, you conceded and faded silently into the background to let the vile assault of our nation proceed unhindered.

For five years, we have seen George W Bush rape this land from sea to shining sea, and take his campaign of hatred and violence to other countries. For five years, you have stood idly by while this man runs rampant, lying to everyone in sight, neither admitting to nor accepting the least fault, much less the worst, catering to right wing extremists and religious fundamentalists, and wilfully trampling our rights and freedoms to pursue his own hateful, greedy agenda. President Bush cares nothing for this country, and even less for its people…whatever colour they are…unless they give him large amounts of cash or otherwise directly benefit him personally. For five years, we have watched as this administration’s devotion to nepotistic cronyism has weakened our vital infrastructure. We, the citizenry, are the victims of this. For five years, you have seen this and known this and still, for some reason that I simply cannot fathom, not seen fit to raise even an eyebrow in protest or a finger to stop it happening. Now the bills for your ineptitude are coming due, and with a vengeance.

The Democratic party has woefully failed this country. We have waited in vain for you to rise up and stop this madness. We have puzzled in angry perplexment at your utter lack of concern or action. What are you waiting for? How can you wait any longer? Do you have not an ounce of temerity in your bodies? Is your brain not engulfed in flames of indignation at what has been happening? How can you stand by and do nothing? How can you even sleep at night, knowing how absolutely useless you have been against this onslaught of cruelty, unconcern, and bloodshed? Where is your outrage? Where is your compassion? Where is your sense of civic duty?

You do not work in a department or grocery store. You dont work as a purchaser for computer equipment for your major corporation. You are an elected official. You work for the United States Of America, and people put their trust in you to get a job done. If this is just a paycheck for you, then step aside. You are in the wrong profession.

If you do not have the courage and tenacity to stand up against this most horrible of administrations, if you do not have the dignity and self respect to refuse to be a party to the Bush administration’s campaign of greed and violence, if you do not have the personal fortitude and love for your country required to stop this, then leave your office so that we may hire someone more qualified for the job, and someone who cares enough to actually do it, even if they find it distasteful. It is not your place to pick and choose whether or not you will take action. You work for us. Too many politicians have forgotten that. It is time to stand up and shout “enough!” It is time to take action. It is time to listen to your constituency. The time for political tolerance of this administration has passed. Look at the devastation around you. What else has to happen before you do something?

I have seen again and again where people have tried to speak, have tried to take action, only for them to be dismissed as unstable, unreliable, and unimportant when they show emotion of any kind. This attitude towards people who speak with feeling and from the heart is the most dangerous kind of rubbish. This attitude makes it all too easy to dismiss people who are saying things we desperately need to listen to. I dont know where it came from, but it must go. We are all human. When we are trampled, our emotions rise. When we are desperate and at our wit’s end, we become angry. When we are afraid, we become angry. When we have had all we can stand, we become angry. It is a natural and necessary part of our humanness.

To refuse to give someone credence, to refuse to listen to someone simply because they are irate or because their words are heated, is not only unwise and unfair, it is nonsensical and insulting, and we do so at our own dire peril. If you are not angry, if your words are not heated, if you are not emotional, then you have not been paying attention. Now is the time for outrage. Now is the time for political correctness to be cast aside as the dangerous poisoned pillow it is. It has been allowed to smother and stifle us for too long. What is required now are real words, real feelings, real emotions, and real action. We are human beings. It is time for us to be human beings, and to reject those who would dehumanize us, those who expect us to suppress our humanity, and shunt us aside because of that humanity. We have seen what political correctness has done to our society. We are more restive and angry and disenfranchised than ever. Suppression breeds violence. Violence is never an answer, but it is often a result of, bad politics. Ignoring, demeaning, and belittling the people never, ever works for long, and never, ever produces any good result. We are angry, and we are angry with good reason. Our anger and emotion is valid, and it is time we are listened to. It is time that something be done about what is happening here.

The Democratic “plan of action” is no plan and no action of any kind. You have sat silently by while this country has been made a mockery of. The world community ridicules us, and is extremely concerned about our leadership, and with very good reason. Everyone else seems to understand that President Bush is unstable, unreliable, untrustworthy, unfit to hold any public office, much less sit in the big chair as the leader of the most powerful country on the planet, yet we seem unable to grasp these facts. He is the worst president in the history of the country, and his is the most corrupt administration, as well. You are allowing the Bush administration to put into place what will eventually amount to a theocratic dictatorship, and you are doing nothing about it. Nothing.

Nothing.

You were elected to your position because you are expected to do a job, and serve your constituency and your country. Now either wake up, get on your feet, and make change, or get out. The time is now. Things have gone too far, and for far too long. You have allowed all of these things to happen. This administration will not stop on its own, that much was made clear in the very first year of Bush’s presidency. If we do not do something to stop them, they will not stop of their own volition. Why should they? They have it pretty easy right now, doing exactly as they please and knowing that however many people complain, nothing will actually be done. This president cannot even visit another country without massive protests and riots by the citizens of these nations rising up against him. Yet we do nothing. And we do nothing. And we do nothing. And we do nothing.

How many mistakes must be made before you step in and take a hand in repairing the damage? How many blatant violations of our Constitution will you swallow before you begin to choke? How many rights must we lose in the name of “democracy and freedom” before your anger is stirred? How many lies must we be told before your dignity and self respect is roused? How many people must be victimized before you will be moved to action? How many people have to die for your compassion to awaken? How hated must we be in the world community before you are embarassed and chagrined, knowing that you were in a position to make and demand change all along, but instead opted to do nothing whatsoever?

Do something, or go home. Because as it stands now, you are worse than useless: you are enabling a criminal regime, you are complicit in these crimes, you have aided and abetted. And that makes you worse than the criminals themselves.

As a citizen of the United States, I demand that you take action against President George W Bush and Vice President Richard Cheney, and file the Articles of Impeachment against them. I demand, as your employer, that you take action against the Bush administration’s corrupt and outrageous policies and reverse the harm they have caused, both within our borders as well as internationally. I demand, as a free thinking citizen of the world, that you open your eyes and realize what your inaction and inability to lead has brought us to. I demand that you waste not a single day more before pursuing what you should have pursued when the Supreme Court, and not the people of this country, allowed this man and his party to steal the 2000 election. Right from day one, you did nothing. Now is the time to make it right. Now is the time to act.

Get busy, or get another job. It’s as simple as that. And in the meantime, shame on you. Shame on you for having to be told these things. Shame on you for your deadly political ennui. Shame on you for letting people suffer and die while you played useless political games and wasted your time trying to avoid being controversial or confrontational. Shame on you for not defending with your last breath our rights and freedoms, and for allowing our Constitution to be debased and cast aside. Shame on you for your lack of internal fortitude. Shame on you for your inaction and your lack of responsibility and understanding that comes with your office. Shame on you for making me not only embarassed of having been a lifelong Democrat, but also for making me ashamed of being an American.

Shame on you.