Why Do You Hate Me?

Why do you hate me? You talk of freedom and concern for my children but it is hollow rhetoric, you wish to take away our freedom. You say that we must shrink the government but it is really that you wish to disenfranchise the most vulnerable, the 'least' as Jesus said, among us. You say you love our country but you loathe the idea of America and blaspheme the Constitution. You say you want to defend the citizens of this country but see large parts of the citizenry without any legal, political, or moral entitlement to the American Dream.

Why do you loathe that we are different, that in America there is a sense of belonging that goes beyond color or social class? Why do you not take pride in the greatness we all aspire to or help to create a sense of belonging to something greater then ourselves? Why do you give rise to the false idol of unfettered capitalism while espousing that we are a Christian nation? Why do you force a fundamentalist social dogma of the unchecked unaccountable self on us?

Mr. Paul Ryan, why do you hate America, what feeds your desire to destroy the most successful and popular programs any government has ever created? Who will destroying Medicare and Social Security help? The robber barons on Wall Street, as they will be given all of hard working America's money to gamble with. These programs are what has made America great and just because they do nothing for profit making for the rich, and just because they give the poor and under privileged of your great country a, abet small, sense of financial security and keep them from abject poverty, you want to destroy them.

Mr. Rand Paul, why do you hate America, what racist bones lurk under your cold self effacing exterior? What will destruction of Civil Rights protections gain for anyone but the rich white man? It is an impediment of freedom to have racial equality, to have leveled the playing field for generations of real Americans, in your eyes. These rights will never be obsolete and even though you will try to silence their voices with voter registration laws, they will prevail. The world of your fore fathers is fading fast.

Mr John Boehner, why do hate our children, denying the good that comes of feeding those whose parents are poor and struggling a good meal, once a day, while at school? Have you no shame sir? To feed and educate our children is a bad thing in your eyes. You want to take the public funding of our schools and put it in the pockets of private companies under the guise that charter schools are better. The more money an area has, the better the education. You wish to keep those disproportionately disenfranchised down, down for the count, and you do it by feeding the idea of bad schools, schools that are not the best they could be because we are keeping the money they desperately need from them. You want to fire teachers and strip them of a chance to live a dignified, if not, gasp, successful life. You want to take the state university systems and sell them out for corporate sponsorship to oligarchs like the Koch Brothers; shrinking faculty, who God forbid are progressive, training instead of educating, all the while raising tuition to keep those who are not already rich, or well off, from being able to obtain an education with out incurring massive debt.

Mr. Eric Cantor, why do you hate the backbone of America, it's infrastructure? With your cronies, like Chris Christie, in State House's across the country you refuse to make funds available to build roads and bridges while giving billions to the gas and oil companies that fund you campaigns. Building a new rail system of light rail and commuter trains for metropolitan areas and the crumbling roads that go to our rural areas is wrong, why? Perhaps because it is the poor that will benefit, giving them an opportunity to have a better job or education. Investment in infrastructure will create jobs, remember we need jobs, it will relieve congestion, pollution, and consumption of fossil fuels, but in your eyes these are everything wrong with this investment.

Mr. Ron Paul, why do you hate the beauty of untouched landscapes? The natural wonders of our great country are a treasure that once destroyed will be gone forever. A few more years of natural gas or fossil fuels is more important then our responsibility to save the wonder of our country for our children and our children's children in your eyes. Natural resources are a trust fund and when you spend the principle it is gone for good. But you would rather sell it all to the people who line your pockets, the corporations who care less then you about America, to those that see only dollar signs and not the intrinsic beauty of an untouched vista or the grandeur of the Grand Canyon or Red Wood Forest. Drill, baby, drill is fracking stupid, poisoning the water and destroying the livelihood of many Americans, but then, they provide nothing to the money making of the rich so they don't matter.

Mr Rick Santorum, why do you hate women? You think that your radical interpretation of the Bible should guide our country you theocratical despot. Jesus says nothing about birth control, abortion, or gay marriage and you, sir, are a liar and hypocrite when you rail against them. We all know about your wife, and we all know that you wish to control the American woman by crushing her reproductive rights. Birth control for all is a good thing, fiscally and morally. Abortions for women who may die or were raped is just compassionate. Gay marriage is a right under the Constitution you espouse to defend and will do nothing to harm our great nation. The rights of certain people are not as important to you as you own blind ideology, please go crawl back into the hole you hate from.

Mr. Scott Walker, why do you hate the working man? Your destruction of the unions is two fold, to increase the profits of your benefactors and to crush the common man's political voice. Workers in America are forced to accept employers' demands and things that have been taken for granted like contracts, pensions, and health benefits have been replaced with the notion of just holding on to a job. America has become, because of state-corporate policy, because of people like you, a country with sectors of great wealth, a huge mass of misery, and a large superfluous population, lacking any rights because they contribute nothing to profit-making for the rich. This is not the America I was raised to love and admire, my America lifts all it's citizens up, my America wants the best for all it's citizens.

Mr. Mitch McConnell, why do you hate peace? You will cut the small amounts we spend on social programs, the things that make us a better country, but increase ten-fold the money spent on the state-corporate war machine. I realize you get lots of donations from these people but is it really in our interest to create violence across the world as a national interest in order to justify spending these billions of dollars. We were not protecting any national interest in Iraq, we were only putting honorable Americans in harms way for profit.

Mr. Mitt Romney, why do hate the poor? You made what I make in 5 years in the time it has taken me to write this. You hide your money outside our country so you can horde it instead of investing it in the land that helped you become a billionaire. Then you suggest that your ilk should pay less tax so you can steal more from the rest of us. As I am sure you know daily turnover on foreign exchange markets is over $1 trillion, with only 10% of capital related to "real economic transactions". Financial capital in no longer used for long-term investment and trade, speculation is now the order of the day, and this has in effect undermined our country's economic planning; we are forced to preserve market 'credibility' that creates a low growth, high unemployment equilibrium with declining real wages, increasing poverty and inequality for the many and profits for the few. The life style many older Americans have become accustomed to, the dream we are sold in school and in the media, is fading because of people like you and companies like Bain. We can't be the great country we are into perpetuity without investing in our future. If we do not tax the rich more then those few at the top, like you, will be the only ones who are alright and the rest of us will live as indentured servants for the crumbs left over. If taxes are imposed to slow speculative forces, as suggested by Nobel laureate James Tobin, we could remain the great country we have been for hundreds of years, instead of the oligarchy you want us to be.

Why do the Republicans hate America? Because America is more then a land for the interest of the few to rage unchecked and unencumbered. They hate that our aspirations as a nation, that our greatest achievements, are ones that embrace the common good, that embody both social and civic solidarity, that will include all of us, even the poor and disenfranchised, and provide nothing to the profit making for the rich.