Why I think about moving.

I'm told that anyone who thinks about moving in times of political crisis lacks patriotism. For me it's the opposite, it's like being married to an abusive drug addict. You love them, and you try to help, down to selling things off to be able to afford rehab only for them to go back to using as soon as they get home. Eventually you have to leave, it's not healthy to stay with them, it's terrible for the children to see their dad spiraling further and further out of control and you just need to remember what they were like before.

I love this country, I'm not sure it's worth trying to save anymore though. It's rotten in it's abuse of the 98% of Americans who aren't millionaires. It's addicted to power and high on record corporate profits. It denies children heathcare while it makes it's rich friends even richer on the backs and blood of it's soldiers. It defies basic scientific principles in favor of fanatical religion, twisting it so tightly with our government that the two are no longer distinguishable. It SHOOTS IT'S FRIENDS IN THE FACE, and then gets the one shot to apologize for being in the way of the blast!

I understand how hard it is to stage an intervention, to offer help to those who don't think they need it. The country needs the intervention that the Democrats are offering, we expect a little bit of abuse- what we don't expect is to be forced to apologize for everything everyone we've ever met has ever said. Or else maybe, before we leave the abuser for good- we might try giving them a taste of their own medicine...

McCain can be linked to the KKK and David Duke in fewer steps than would win you a good Kevin Bacon game.

Richard Quinn, McCain's South Carolina Spokesman, Criticized the MLK Holiday
as "Vitriolic and Profane." Richard Quinn, identified as "McCain's
South Carolina strategist" in 2008, also worked for the Senator in the 2000
campaign. In 1983, Quinn wrote a column "arguing against the
recognition of Martin Luther King Day," saying, "King Day should have been
rejected because its purpose is vitriolic and profane. The Black leaders who
lobbied so furiously for King Day confirmed another unpleasant reality. By
celebrating King as the incarnation of all they admire, they have chosen to
glorify the histrionic rather than by heroic and by inference they spurned
the brightest and best among their own race." [Greenville News,
3/16/2008; Spartanburg Herald-Journal, 1/6/2006; Philadelphia Tribune,
2/22/2000]

-- Quinn Served As Editor Of Magazine Described As "Rabidly Devoted To The South's Confederate Heritage." In its November 2004 issue, Vanity Fair described Southern Partisan, the magazine of which Richard Quinn served as editor, as "rabidly devoted to the South's Confederate heritage." [Vanity Fair, 11/2004]

-- Quinn Praised Ku Klux Klan Member David Duke. In Southern Partisan, Quinn praised David Duke in a 1990 entry, writing, "what better way to reject politics-as-usual than to elect a maverick like David Duke?" [Newsday, 2/17/2000]

-- McCain Repeatedly Defended Quinn, Refused To Fire Him Despite Views.
In 2000, when the group, People For the American Way, called on McCain to fire Richard Quinn, McCain defended him saying, "this is a fine man who worked for Ronald Reagan and Strom Thurmond and other fine people." In a 2000 ABC News interview, McCain said Quinn was "a man who is very intelligent, and a man who has done a great job for me in the state of South Carolina. And I do not believe that he is a racist." [Associated Press, 2/18/2000; ABC News, "This Week," 2/6/2000]

OH! "Maverick" isn't that what they're calling McCain now? That has to mean something damning!! Obviously the man is incapable of character judgement or else he just doesn't care which wouldn't be surprising either. Look at how the Bush administration has carried on full of questionable criminals, and they've all gotten RICH! That is afterall the point of public service, right?

The Country needs to take the help it's being offered, it needs to admit it has a problem, it needs to focus on things that will actually improve the lives of the people instead of wasting precious time on the stupid bullshit.

Soon, or I'm leaving. Because I just can't take the abuse anymore.