“It‘s good to be a Blue, regardless of which party you join.”

[avram]

This open letter in The Register, Reach out and sneer: Dem radicals speak to the Red States, is nasty and hurtful, and is wrapped around just enough truth to really have some bite:

You can continue believing, as Republican Party brainwashing has persuaded you, that we, your neighbors, are your enemies. You can believe that we have no morals; that we pimp out our teenage daughters for Internet porn; that we eat babies; that we are all gay; that we are cowards on the battlefield; and that we want to run your lives and give you AIDS.

Here's a clue: we are not your enemies; we are your countrymen. Your enemies are the greedy multinationals that the Republican Party bends over backwards to accommodate. Incidentally, most of them are based in Blue states, as are their Republican owners and major shareholders.

Here in the Blue States, Democrats and Republicans alike generate the lion's share of America's wealth, although it is you Reds who provide the lion's share of the stoop labor. You are our Mexicans, so to speak. We could not have accomplished the economic miracle that is America without your willing capitulation to a system that lies to you and fucks you over at every turn. [...]

We should let you rot. We should secede and leave you to fend for yourselves. Then you will see firsthand just how dependent you are. We are sick of fighting for you by fighting against you. Perhaps, when you see how dreary your lives have become without us, you will finally develop the spine to fight for your basic, human rights. And then we will gladly confront the plutocracy alongside you. We need your help to defeat the Blue Republicans, who, I assure you, are just as decadent as we are, though often richer.

But until you finally learn to respect yourselves, we can't respect you, and we therefore can't be bothered to give a rat's ass about you.

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Oh. My. God.

That is awesome in its sheer pissy obnoxious brilliance.

Stefan

[whumpdotcom.livejournal.com]

I've been wondering for the past week if the spousal abuse model applies to some of the people who voted for Bush.

I don't know if you've known friends or (ghu forbid) family who had a boyfriend or husband beat them up, but getting the abused person to do something about the man who savages them isn't easy.

We went through this with a neighbor last year. We asked her about the bruises, and she told us to fuck off. When she at last threw out her barfly parasite boyfriend, he stormed back in and threw furniture at her. That was an observable disturbance to which the police responded to our call, and dragged the cretin away in irons. She had plenty of opportunities to call the police before then, but she didn't, and we didn't witness the abuse, only the bruises on the next day.

Unfortunately, it would seem that some voters, like some abused people, let things get get worse before they take action to get better.

[kent-allard-jr.livejournal.com]

The Democrats have also been compared to an abused spouse.

[whumpdotcom.livejournal.com]

I'm hoping the cops are going to drag away the DLC this time.

[drcpunk.livejournal.com]

So, what's the truth, where are the lies, what's likely to happen, and what should we all do?

[drcpunk.livejournal.com]

Addendum: One reason I ask is I've heard a lot of this piece's rhetoric from people I know.