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Jan. 6th, 2005 07:37 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
zana16http://www.infoshop.org/inews/stories.php?story=04/12/21/7315537
This is scary. The writer has an obvious bias, but you can't argue with the facts he presents.
I hate how the federal government can screw over the people it is supposed to serve. Literally, it is bending us over and fucking us in the ass, hard, without lube. And it seems that every day there is less and less we can do about it. I love this country. I love the music and the people and the space and the literature and golden rolling hills of my birth state of California, and the scrubbrush-beauty of Texas where I lived for most of my second decade, and the verdant beauty of the Northeast and Midwest. I love the lonely parts of the interstate through Arizona and New Mexico. I love the state parks that are being destroyed and the coastlines that will be destroyed. I love the people who all have stories of hardships and sprituality and making do, making it through. I love the Constitution that founded my country. I love Steinbeck's country, and Kate Wolf's country, but I also love Upton Sinclair's country because it meant that there was real improvement, that the public wouldn't stand for some things, whereas nowadays I see people knowing that these things are happening and just not caring. I never knew that watching them allow themselves to be screwed over could break my heart.
I'm not moving to Canada. I love my country and won't leave as long as it needs people to speak truth to power. Living being one small voice makes me feel helpless, but one voice is better than none, I suppose.
This is scary. The writer has an obvious bias, but you can't argue with the facts he presents.
I hate how the federal government can screw over the people it is supposed to serve. Literally, it is bending us over and fucking us in the ass, hard, without lube. And it seems that every day there is less and less we can do about it. I love this country. I love the music and the people and the space and the literature and golden rolling hills of my birth state of California, and the scrubbrush-beauty of Texas where I lived for most of my second decade, and the verdant beauty of the Northeast and Midwest. I love the lonely parts of the interstate through Arizona and New Mexico. I love the state parks that are being destroyed and the coastlines that will be destroyed. I love the people who all have stories of hardships and sprituality and making do, making it through. I love the Constitution that founded my country. I love Steinbeck's country, and Kate Wolf's country, but I also love Upton Sinclair's country because it meant that there was real improvement, that the public wouldn't stand for some things, whereas nowadays I see people knowing that these things are happening and just not caring. I never knew that watching them allow themselves to be screwed over could break my heart.
I'm not moving to Canada. I love my country and won't leave as long as it needs people to speak truth to power. Living being one small voice makes me feel helpless, but one voice is better than none, I suppose.