Letters to the Editor
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Nix Bipartisanship !
I don't want bipartisan. I don't want to send a (metaphorical) child to fight a monster. The Republican Party has systematically destroyed our nation. Bush's base is just as he told it, "the haves and the have mores." The Republican Party has been infected since Nixon. Now it is a full-fledged zombie/vampire/ghoul. We need someone who can kill it, to drive a stake through its black, black heart because there is no way to bring it back from the horror of the undead. How can one make compromise with utter evil?
I ask you, what is the acceptable compromise?
My heart belongs to Edwards because he actually does understand the difference between Wal-Mart and Target and that, however disgusting Wal-Mart is, that it is where the poor both work and shop. My heart belongs to Edwards not because he understands hope but because he understands the debilitating horror of hopelessness, which is what people waaaay below the exualted middle class have to deal with. People die, die from from lack of health insurance. Not all the bodies destroyed by the Bush Administration come from Iraq. Compassionate conservatism anyone? Not all the starving are in Darfur. Some of them are right here in your neighborhoods. They are the people you won't make eye contact with, who you can tell yourself are just too drunken, lazy, insane (or veterans!) to be productive. Not all the children in need are elsewhere. We have children in need here.
The infection that has eaten the Republican soul is lack of empathy. It has made us insanely callous to others. That is why we can wage a war in which far more Iraqi children have lost their lives than we have lost servicemen and women and we can still focus on ending the war because it has worn us out rather than having ended it long ago because it is destructive to the world and to the Iraqi people in particular. We should have ended it because it is immoral. Those are not just other people dying over there. Those are fellow human beings.
I will give Obama one credit. He opposed the war from the beginning, but so did I. That doesn't qualify me to be president. Nor does it qualify him. Nothing I have seen of him allows me to detect the steel and fire that can forge a weapon to destroy the Constitution-destroying, human rights-destroying, compassion-destroying monster that the Republican party has become.
I will certainly support him if he wins, but I have finally made up my mind. I support John Edwards for President of the United States of America to come. If he fails, then I support Hillary Clinton as the devil tough enough to fight the devil I hate.
A curse on bipartisanship. It will get us more of the same.
I am not just an antiwar liberal. I am not just a summertime liberal. I am a liberal's liberal. If I can't have someone like Kucinich, I at least want someone who can fight monsters.