Rant: Americexit
Oct. 18th, 2022 07:43 pmAll right, conservatives, let’s say you get your wish and Democrats find it evermore impossible to get anyone from their party elected anywhere in the United States. Aside from a few “blue” holdouts, the country is completely controlled by conservatives.
Then what?
Do you have a plan to reduce healthcare costs? Trump didn’t. Bush didn’t. Reagan didn’t. Do you have a plan that will actually reduce crime? That will actually save trans kids from thoughts of depression and suicide? That will reduce the price of gasoline, of groceries? Do you have a plan to preserve America’s great national parks? To make our air more breathable, our water more drinkable, our food safer? Do you have any ideas about making our country smarter and healthier? Do you know how to manage our aging electrical grid? Rebuild or restore our roads and canals and rail lines? Do you have any plans for preventing corporations for controlling all our lives?
If you get your way, it will be because you cheated; you gerrymandered the states, you exploited loopholes in the Constitution that gave a patch of dirt in South Dakota more votes than a Spanish-speaking family of four in Los Angeles, and you elected election officials who disqualified Democratic votes at impossibly higher rates than Republican votes.
Over on the other side of the ocean, “Brexit” appears to be in the final throes of collapsing the United Kingdom. Twenty years of unbroken English-speaking conservative rule has led to this moment: their healthcare is collapsing. Their energy grid is collapsing. Their water quality is plummeting. This winter, it is expected that the current conservative reign will lead to people starving to death, freezing to death, dying of dysentery. Or, just in general, die from a lack of healthcare.
I mean, you’re already doing it to yourselves. Thanks to your politicization of COVID and vaccination, COVID is killing conservatives at much higher rates than liberals. You want to claim that’s all fake, but you can’t hide obituaries. You can’t hide the funerals. And you all die at 1.76 times the rate we do because of it.
Prove you have imagination, compassion, and a sense of self-preservation. Go on. Because otherwise I’m just betting that you don’t have those things, you just want to win, and you’re willing to stack human bodies a mile high if you must to claim some sort of “victory.”
And if those bodies happen to be your own, your mothers, your fathers, your childrens’, well, you’re perfectly happy to let that happen.
Prove us wrong.
Then what?
Do you have a plan to reduce healthcare costs? Trump didn’t. Bush didn’t. Reagan didn’t. Do you have a plan that will actually reduce crime? That will actually save trans kids from thoughts of depression and suicide? That will reduce the price of gasoline, of groceries? Do you have a plan to preserve America’s great national parks? To make our air more breathable, our water more drinkable, our food safer? Do you have any ideas about making our country smarter and healthier? Do you know how to manage our aging electrical grid? Rebuild or restore our roads and canals and rail lines? Do you have any plans for preventing corporations for controlling all our lives?
If you get your way, it will be because you cheated; you gerrymandered the states, you exploited loopholes in the Constitution that gave a patch of dirt in South Dakota more votes than a Spanish-speaking family of four in Los Angeles, and you elected election officials who disqualified Democratic votes at impossibly higher rates than Republican votes.
Over on the other side of the ocean, “Brexit” appears to be in the final throes of collapsing the United Kingdom. Twenty years of unbroken English-speaking conservative rule has led to this moment: their healthcare is collapsing. Their energy grid is collapsing. Their water quality is plummeting. This winter, it is expected that the current conservative reign will lead to people starving to death, freezing to death, dying of dysentery. Or, just in general, die from a lack of healthcare.
I mean, you’re already doing it to yourselves. Thanks to your politicization of COVID and vaccination, COVID is killing conservatives at much higher rates than liberals. You want to claim that’s all fake, but you can’t hide obituaries. You can’t hide the funerals. And you all die at 1.76 times the rate we do because of it.
Prove you have imagination, compassion, and a sense of self-preservation. Go on. Because otherwise I’m just betting that you don’t have those things, you just want to win, and you’re willing to stack human bodies a mile high if you must to claim some sort of “victory.”
And if those bodies happen to be your own, your mothers, your fathers, your childrens’, well, you’re perfectly happy to let that happen.
Prove us wrong.
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