07/11/2024
If any of my friends voted for that orange fascist in this election, please unfriend me now and save me the trouble.
Things are going to get very, very bad in this country and I'm not quiet when my sense of justice is outraged. I anticipate you will see many things on my page with which you will vehemently disagree, and I have no interest in hearing the "defense" of your vote.
"But aren't you avoiding intelligent discourse regarding opinions different from your own?" you may ask.
No--I am avoiding those who voted in favor of a dictatorship, and I do not treat with cultists. There is no--I repeat, *no*--acceptable defense for your vote. None. Period.
I don't care if you're a hard-line, one-issue voter. Anyone who calls themselves pro-life cannot be in favor of anyone who will defend one form of life and blissfully allow others--far, far more than you're "defending"--to be destroyed. Women. The poor. The sick and suffering. The refugees. The war-torn. And don't you dare hide behind your "pro-life" ethic and comfort yourself by pleasant untruths: This will happen--this *is* happening--because of your vote. You are not pro-life. Many will die needlessly--and this is on your head.
I don't care if you think you're pro-peace. Anyone who willingly sides with Russia and world leaders in favor of conquest and genocide (there's more than one, people) is themselves a warmonger and murderer. And if you think that Putin will stop at Ukraine when it's essentially handed to him on a silver platter, then you're a fool. The conditions are now ripe for a world war, which will bring death, destruction, and poverty in abundance--and this is on your head.
I don't care if you think you're a "good" person or a "family" person. Good people don't sit blithely by when the rights, lives, and livelihoods of fellow human beings are threatened. And, again, don't kid yourself: It will be only a matter of time until *your* freedoms and lives, as well as those of the family you think you care about so much, are threatened--and this is on your head.
Outside of those ultra-priveleged and morally bankrupt few in his circle, no one's lives will remain untouched. From lack of access to health care, employment, housing, food, safety, thousands of people will suffer--including, almost certainly, you--and this is on your head.
Don't tell me that you voted to "help" the economy. The tariffs that are coming won't hurt businesses overseas, and will *all* be passed along to the consumer. Forget luxuries: Absolute necessities--food, clothing, medicine, everything--will be out of reach for thousands upon thousands upon thousands in this country, almost certainly including yourself. And this will be on your head.
I don't care if you call yourself a Christian. If you cannot recognize all others on this earth as your neighbors, cannot see the divinity and equal dignity that is within us all, and cannot welcome, feed, and clothe the stranger--in every form that stranger may take--then you are no Christian, for those above are the core tenets of Christianity. For "Christian" substitute any other religion that is based on love of God and love of neighbor. Everyone on this planet--not just the people you "want"--is your neighbor. You just voted to put their lives in danger--and this is on your head.
I don't care if you call yourself a woman, a feminist, a minority, or even a human being. You're a hypocrite and a traitor to all other women, feminists, minorities, and human beings.
You voted in--twice!--a psychopath. He doesn't care about you. He doesn't care about the country. He doesn't care about democracy. He cares about exactly one thing: Himself.
That you cannot see this--that you have so little knowledge of human nature and history that you cannot see where this is going and where this will end--makes you a willing tool of a dictator. History will condemn you. Generations that will be prevented from living and flourishing in safety and peace will damn you. You will be forever remembered as one who failed democracy, your country, and your fellow human beings. You would have done better not to vote at all than to throw your lot in with such an evil.
You've damned us all by raising up a tyrant, a dictator, a fascist, a psychopath who will now set about his tasks of destruction. And, again, don't kid yourself: He isn't just coming for "my" side. You've given him enough rope to hang all of us, and he will do so.
Unfriend me now. You are no friend of mine.
Borrowed from Susan Poliniak
