On Election Eve
It is the land of freedom in a way that I think most people don’t understand. Here, there is no one religion. No religious leader can say “my religion is more important than your religion.”
And it is the land of opportunity. Anyone can become anything. I didn’t realize how much I loved this country until after I had fled it. I traveled the world, and every minute was joy. Until I finally came home to freedom.
I came home to a country where women had rights, and minorities had protection against tyranny. The Supreme Court ruled on the constitution and not on political favors. We believed in the strength of public education, and Medicare, and Social Security.
With the outsider’s eye given to me by my travels, I have watched this country and its goodness fight against an unseen enemy. Long before Trump was rescued by a fake reality television show from what would’ve been his last terrible bankruptcy, I saw the new Republican party stand on the convention stage and say one after another, “we must save money by ending public education. If people can’t pay for their children to go to school, their children don’t deserve it. We must privatize Social Security, so that unnamed corporations can take unnamed amounts of money out of it.” As if Social Security was an entitlement and not our retirement money. “We must ban abortion. Women have too much power. We must overturn the civil rights protections, because we will not win the vote if it is fair.” And when they found a Russian - supported failure of a man who was rescued over and over again from his self destructive business practices, a man who came from a Nazi grandfather and a KKK father, who had been in trouble for refusing to rent apartments to Black people, no matter how wealthy they were, they made him a star. This election is not about Trump. It is about the people who put him in power, and kept him in power with teams of private militias put together from white supremacist trolls.
And this is their pledge. “Only white men will have the right to vote. All abortion, birth control, and in vitro fertilization techniques will be illegal. Billionaires will have to pay neither taxes nor overtime so we will have to pay more. Putin can start World War Three.”
I have faith that the American people will see through this coup. I hope that they’ll vote blue across the line to save this country’s greatness.
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