To the leadership of the Republican party, goodbye.
This is not a passing issue, or a hard-fought dilemma, you simply are no longer even remotely connected to America. Your bailouts were massive, and targeted areas where liquid capital could have replaced paper profits, but when the time came to preserve American jobs and a middle-class you showed your true colors and failed.
You, and the administration for the last eight years, have finally proven beyond a shadow of a doubt that you are all traitors to the people of the United States of America. Do not even offer me a candidate, the mere label of “Republican” and the sense of trust he must have had with you to earn your backing will be an albatross about his neck that Davy Jones himself could not remove.
No longer are you to contact me, I am not listening. Rush and Bill, you can yell and scream all you want, I will not hear. Deeds speak louder than words, and a Republican administration has damaged this country, I fear, beyond repair.
I now go forth to do my best, to teach our future generations about the mistakes we’ve made in these last sorry 8 years. It matters not how many troops you put on the ground in Iraq or Afghanistan, the terrorists have already won. I do not fly because I’m afraid of dying of a bomb, I do not fly because I cannot afford the extra fees attatched to security, nor the dehyrdation that results from not being willing to pay ten bucks for a 500ml bottle of water.
The wars were a bad idea, Al Queda was going to be stopped by intelligence and surgical strikes and cooperation. Now, no one cares about them as they’re too afraid that some B-52 is going to come along and drop a 500lb bomb on them. Now, after all this, we find ourselves in so much debt I do not think that the rest of the world will let us out of it until they catch up and/or surpass us.
I, and many of my generation, now face the real prospect of working until the day we die. No more retirement, no more golden years. With the economy, we might not have “real” jobs, denying me the chance to have a “real” family. To say I feel betrayed is a bit like saying that liquid nitrogen is “a touch cold”.
But we come to the final straw, the failure to bail out GM. I believe in their products, and felt that many on all sides of this issue could have, should have, needed to see the writing on the wall: It’s not 1957 anymore. There. Is. Nothing. Wrong. With. GM. Cars. All cars have problems, and I’ve seen just as many problems in foriegn imports as anything built in America. I’ve driven Oldsmobiles for 18 of my 19 adult years, just two, and put on 400,000 miles on them for $1500 in non-wearable repairs. 1 cam, 1 radiator. But no pressure was put on the unions to compromise to help make the companies profitable, no oversight was put on the CEOs when it was obvious that their “bonuses” were smokescreens for looting the company, no critical look was even taken at the questionable actions of Consumer Reports in the late ’80s. People who continue to claim that “GM killed the electric car” are not just ignorant, but stupid. California killed it. GM and Ford were the only two car companies that even tried to comply with the law, where’s the outrage against Toyota? Honda? Volkswagen? All who stalled knowing that the lobby would get it overturned. GM and Ford cowboyed up and delivered at a time when these cars costed them money. On this standard alone, I will NEVER own a vehicle not made by GM, Ford, or a future American car company. I will build my fucking own if I have to.
If, in some bizarro chance, the Republican Party was all about pleasing me, Doug Glendower, you have failed. You may now shutter your doors and let someone else have a turn. Lincoln would like to give you the finger, Roosevelt has a kick he’s waiting to deliver to your crotch, and Eisenhower is going to remove your internal organs with Alan Rickman’s rusty spoon.
Go.
Go now.
Sincerly,
Douglas C. Glendower.
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