Reply #31: Dear Senator Kerry [View All]

You don't know me, but I'm one of the millions who see the United States being hijacked by a party of thugs and crooks. As a young person I was a liberal and then as I moved into middle class America I found myself being seduced by the selfishness and greed of the Republican party. I am ashamed to admit I began voting for my pocketbook and my own selfish gain. I forgot where I had been and that there were others still there.

As I started spending time on political message boards my eyes were opened and I found myself returning to my liberal roots. Posting on a predominantly conservative message board I found myself in the company of some of the nastiest, most hard hearted people I had ever encountered. Their justification of the Iraq war cemented my transformation....I now PROUDLY wear the label LIBERAL again. I donated to your campaign and volunteered and worked for your campaign and I was proud to do so.

I lived through the Vietnam era and saw what it did to a whole generation of young men including my brother, and I once again see war tearing our nation apart. We hear rumblings of more to come...Iran and who knows who else. If you, and other likes you, cease to fight the neocons will win by default and our country will slide ever closer to a fascist state.

Many of us have lived with the labels of anti-american, anti-patriotic, terrorist sympathizers and now conspiracy theorists, but we are still here and we are still fighting. Please, PLEASE join us, please turn the boat and lead the way.