Not My Amerca?
This has probably made the rounds before in Meme land but I saw it for the first time this morning and thought it worthy of another GO ROUND.
A neat thing happened to me on facebook today, I came across this short piece that speaks to the South and the GOP Tea Party. The old proverbial nail hit on the head, once again. thinkingblue
Secessionists
"This is not my nation any more.
This is not my America!" they say.
Don't laugh- they're probably right.
Because if you believe that America in the 21st century should
function under the same assumptions and with the same values as
America in the 18th century...
then no, this actually isn't your America any more.
If you believe that "Freedom of religion" means that
you have the right to make decisions about health care, family
planning, equal rights, evolution and education for people who do
not share your religion...
you're in the wrong place.
If you believe that black people vote for a black man only
because of race but white people never vote for a white guy
because of his race...
if you believe that a 90 year old veteran who has been voting for
50 years should be denied a ballot because he no longer has a
driver's license...
then it's not your America any more.
If you believe that bullying and abuse is ok as long as you do it
for Jesus, and that kids are better off in orphanages than with
gay parents and that rape shouldn't be an 'excuse' for an
abortion because some girls rape easy...
this is not your America.
If you believe that the working poor, pensioners and veterans in
America just want 'free stuff' but the wealthy demand their
personal income tax cuts for the good of the nation...
no, this is not your America.
If you think you have the right to say who other people can
love...
this isn't that place.
And if you believe that it's not possible for your candidate to
lose an election unless the "urban" people cheated...by
voting... that an acceptable way to win is to try to stop as many
people as possible from voting, that "bipartisan' means that
all the wrong people are supposed to do things your way and that
the "United" part of "United States of
America" only applies when your party is running the show...
then you don't understand what America is.
It's not a country where you can just 'opt out' when things don't
go your way, and where a bunch of people whining that they want
to leave will make us turn our backs on our principles.
It's not a place where beginning a sentence with "I'm not a
racist' makes it ok to call the President a ni**er.
It's not a country where a rich, privileged old man can attack a
young woman's character in vicious and almost pornographic simply
because he disagrees with her politics and not suffer
consequences.
It's not a place where we believe that a helping hand in the
middle of a natural disaster should come with a pricetag..
It's not a nation where we think it's ok for poor people to die
from treatable diseases because millionaire CEO's don't want to
cut into their profits.
And thankfully, it's not a nation where bitter, obscenely wealthy
men can buy themselves an election.
You folks are the same people who yell "America- love it or
leave it" at us every time we try to fix what's broken
around here.
Now, it seems like you don't love it enough to stick around and
work together.
Well, we're not trying to run you out, but you are certainly free
to go.
Of course you don't get to take your state with you- sorry, but
that 'Constitution' thing you're always going on about says the
states stay together.
And you don't get the flag you're always waving; that belongs to
America.
But you can leave, if that's really what you want.
The border is that-a-way...
Tracy
http://meisky.com/soapbox/
https://www.facebook.com/Estes.Park.Democrats.OFA
Now let's stop all this nonsense and start making changes that will make America a wonderful place for ALL. thinkingblue
http://billmoyers.com/2013/06/07/new-data-shows-school-reformers-are-getting-it-wrong/