Taden: aside from the Pax Romana, the United States of America stands as the nlogest form of uninterrupted democracy in the Western Hemisphere. (Granted: even that factoid is questionable, as Pax Romana is generally considered to limited to 211 years: Nerva, Trajan, Hadrian, Antoninus Pius and Marcus Aurelius.) Would you suppose that such a longstanding governing body be easily swayed by ill-read and misinformed buffoons haplessly collecting at a speech of their erstwhile enemy, or would you concede that a much larger population chooses to occupy strategic positions whilst exercising their rights as Citizens of The United States of America? The Tea Party has no long term goal. The truth is that this country's children are fed through federal programs on that fact alone I am willing to pay taxes. Have you become so cold hearted that you would snatch food from a child's mouth to save $0.37? (People don't often take care of their own, couldn't we, you and I, as Citizens and participants of our society just summarily decide to feed children?) This would normally be the part where I would try to pull disparate factions together, to string a common thread from the common man all the way up to the captains of industry. But I can't, Taden, because the thread had been severed. I will tell it to you directly: You cannot get there from where you are. You will never get there. Your children will never get there. I am not suggesting that you throw your lot in with any group, only that you remove your voice from the establishment that sucks you dry in exchange of our own boot-straps. I don't dislike you, Taden, but I can assure you that I like you more than them. Don't be beguiled. Your world won't be changed so much only that you might be able to get good medical care, that your children might be introduced to art while they are getting a good education, and that the heaping animosities you bear can be assuaged by the whole of us. You can keep your guns, too. (I have several, and I am not willing to give them up.)Taden, I wish you the best.
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1 year ago
by anonymous