Righteous Indignation
I'd heard through the grapevine that my Bitch-Saint Grandmother called my dad to gloat about the election results. All I have to say about that woman is that while she means well, she's about as much a brainwashed and spoonfed sheep as Fox news and the Christian church could ever hope for. On the one hand, I applaud her Christian charity and on the other, I detest her narrow-minded moral judgements.

And my dad? Woah, this campaign had him on the war path. I've never seen either of my parents politically motivated, though this may just be because my birth changed their hippie ways. But after four-years of this fascist administration, dad got teed off enough that he started rallying for Howard Dean, which really surprised me. I met Dean when he and Clinton spoke at the UO on Halloween in 2002 and even then he struck me as a bit... much. I'm glad my dad got involved in something. I'm even glad he got outraged, as depressed as it seemed to make him at times. Political activism will ALWAYS be better than apathy.

You can imagine that Grandma calling up dad to gloat about the moralistic majority did nothing good. In response, dad's drafted a letter to Bush voters. It's a very angry letter, and perhaps one I'd not recommend he send directly to our older, republican family members. Nevertheless, I am impressed, and so I am posting it.

I will not be hosting a debate on this post, or replying to inflammatory pro-republican comments. The reason is this: the individual opinions expressed in this letter are not my own. I agree with the overall message, but I didn't write it.

With that, enjoy:

A Letter to Bush Voters. (pdf format)