Thank you, Larry Herbst, for your letter to TIME

After an election, it isn't always easy to forgive, forget and move on. And although it's disheartening to believe that the leader of your country is a wrongheaded and dangerous person, it's far worse to realize he was eagerly chosen by a self-righteous and gloating majority. Some of us feel deep in our heart that America isn't really the place for us, that perhaps we belong somewhere else, in a country where good people live. There are parts of the U.S. where I now know I could not live, not because of the red or blue color on the electoral map but because of the narrowness of the residents' minds and the darkness of their hearts. Might we not be better off as two separate nations than as one in which half of us are forced to accept the will of the other half?
LARRY HERBST
Pasadena, Calif.

From http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1101041122-782111,00.html

My sentiments exactly. I sometimes feel like I don't even belong in this country any more -- and I live in a blue state. Even here, some of the things I hear people say, some of the LTTEs in the local papers, are so hateful and bigoted that I'm not sure I want to live in the same jurisdiction with people who think like that.

My fellow "Americans" have NO clue what
it means to be an American.
It's getting uglier by the minute.
I foresee this country becoming one big episode of
Survivor, or what ever that insipid show is called.
I want no part of fascist hate-mongering, false x-tianity
"America."
"Jesus wept."
bhn