An open letter
Nov. 10th, 2009 12:28 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
soc_puppetDear Democratic Party,
Hi! Remember me? I'm that young semi-marginalized person that's been voting for you for a few years now.
Sadly, I don't think I'm going to be doing so again for a while. It's nothing personal, really - except, wait, IT TOTALLY IS.
That thing where you're voting to take away my bodily autonomy? That thing where you're allowing my right to get married to the person I choose go up for vote by mob mentality? That thing where you don't seem to give a flying fuck whether you actually reform our health care?
Well, the personal is political, as they say. And it doesn't get much more personal than what I decide to do with my uterus, who I want to spend my life with, and whether I can survive from day to day.
It doesn't even matter if it's just me or not. The fact that you're deciding this for every other woman, queer person, and person who can't afford basic health care in this country, though? The fact that you're doing all of this when you claim to be the party that won't?
Color me disillusioned. Color me abandoned. Color me sick-at-heart. Color me something - anything - other than blue. Because I'm tired of this.
Next election, if I vote, I'll be voting for someone whose views actually align with my own, regardless of party affiliation. And if they lose? Well, at least I'll have gone down standing for my principles - which is something more than you can say.
Either way, I'm outta here.
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On that note, anyone interested in moving to Canada with me? Alternately, for those already in Canada, would you mind if I were to drop in occasionally and/or set up an anime club or something? Because I could, potentially, do this on my own. I would still like an eensy bit more of a support network than that, though.
Hi! Remember me? I'm that young semi-marginalized person that's been voting for you for a few years now.
Sadly, I don't think I'm going to be doing so again for a while. It's nothing personal, really - except, wait, IT TOTALLY IS.
That thing where you're voting to take away my bodily autonomy? That thing where you're allowing my right to get married to the person I choose go up for vote by mob mentality? That thing where you don't seem to give a flying fuck whether you actually reform our health care?
Well, the personal is political, as they say. And it doesn't get much more personal than what I decide to do with my uterus, who I want to spend my life with, and whether I can survive from day to day.
It doesn't even matter if it's just me or not. The fact that you're deciding this for every other woman, queer person, and person who can't afford basic health care in this country, though? The fact that you're doing all of this when you claim to be the party that won't?
Color me disillusioned. Color me abandoned. Color me sick-at-heart. Color me something - anything - other than blue. Because I'm tired of this.
Next election, if I vote, I'll be voting for someone whose views actually align with my own, regardless of party affiliation. And if they lose? Well, at least I'll have gone down standing for my principles - which is something more than you can say.
Either way, I'm outta here.
----
On that note, anyone interested in moving to Canada with me? Alternately, for those already in Canada, would you mind if I were to drop in occasionally and/or set up an anime club or something? Because I could, potentially, do this on my own. I would still like an eensy bit more of a support network than that, though.
