"We're barely bright enough to chew our own food."

Written by a woman in Cleveland the morning after the election--

It would be difficult to fully communicate my disappointment in a simple email. On the other hand, slipping out into the hall and drowning myself in the mop bucket would mean that someone else would have to feed my dog.

Kerry has not yet conceded defeat, but I have. Even if someone finds that crate full of votes for Kerry bobbing down the Cuyahoga River, the American people have spoken, and they have sent the world a message:

"We're barely bright enough to chew our own food."

Incompetence, incoherence, inarticulateness, pettiness and random savagery apparently do not deter the majority of Americans. The thing that really, REALLY matters to Americans? Homos. And foreigners. Both must be stopped at any cost.

Americans voted overwhelmingly in favor of bigotry, amending state constitutions around the country to prevent same-sex couples from having any rights beyond the right to live on the margins of society. We clearly have far more to fear from The International Homosexual Conspiracy(tm) than we do from North Korea and the collapse of the American health care system.

Apparently, we are truly a nation of slackjawed yokels, awed only by grotesque displays of wealth and violence, reverent only of the bossman and beholden not even to our children, since we seem content to mortgage their future in favor of a $300 tax refund that we have traded for decent jobs, healthcare, an d a just society.

We make pious noises about worshipping a Just and Merciful God, while doling out destruction and horror upon the innocent, pausing only to pat ourselves on the back for waging a "just" war to rid the world of tyrants that audaciously aspire to exist after they lose their utility to us in endless low-level conflicts to control the world's oil supply.

We seem to have become cheap, venal, vulgar and petty while we apparently don't have the ability to reason our way out of the dilemma of taking care of the sick, watching out for the elderly, and teaching our children not to be credulous, callow dupes.

To my friends from the UK, France and anyone to whom they choose to forward this, I feel that I owe you an apology. It is as if I have brought an orangutan to high tea. While he flings shit at you and tries to snatch pastries from your plate, I am left wondering how I might make it up to you.

The world's richest and most powerful nation seems to have lost its moral compass. We have lost interest in leading by example in favor of taking by force. I would like to say that I believe that one day in the future America might regain its senses. Unfortunately, I am not terribly optimistic. The best I can offer you is to remind you that Nixon also won a second term.

and it ended up in England with one of my friends. Apparently they loved it. It is sad but true.

most people in our Party think like this? If they do; Lord help us. We'll never win again.

Sure they do, they are just willing to cater to it because they don't give a damn about anything but grabbing money. They wouldn't care if we lynched homosexuals in the park as long as the idiots who vote for them continue to do so.

They would never win again.

Mr Observer.

I'm so sick of people (usually newbies for some reason) whining about how we'll never win again if we don't pander to the right.

if we pander to the right.

:o

I will spare you the royal "we".

And we'll shut up.

Paragraphs 5 & 6 are just perfect.

one in Constantinople and one in another city issued decrees jointly as "we".

Many think that the origination was during the Victorian era, "We are not amused." I do notice that some low count posters use the term we more than others and it is usually to make an opposing sides views known.

...was written by the author of the letter (not me) and I'm notta low-count poster - been on here 2 years or so.

So, no one on DU used 'WE' - the author of the letter did and I think she did a really good job enumerating the idiocy of just a tad (if that much) over half of AmeriKKKan voters.

I've read that calling Republicans idiots or 'stupid' does no good any maybe it doesn't, but my opinion - not written as eloquently as the author of the letter I posted - is that they're stupid idiots with their heads crammed so far up their asses that they need a porthole in their bellybutton to see what they're walking into (the dogmatic chasm of the Religious Reich, perhaps?), should they even care to know - and many of the brain-dead ignoramuses apparently - don't.

It is true that not all stupid people are Republicans, but it is also true that most Republicans are stupid people.