redhotvixen

I had so much hope for America. I had so much hope for the future of our freedoms. But those hopes have died with the re-election of Bush.

I can not cope with the idea of living in a country, my country, that is led by those who will stop at nothing to take away my reproductive rights, the rights of my homosexual friends, my access to healthcare and a clean environment, and the last remains of our civil liberties as Americans. We are a people led and manipulated by fear. Yet, the majority of my fellow citizens were so blindly ignorant to vote for this evil, tyrannical man who has no moral values ... yet ironically chose moral values as the most important issue in this election.

I morn because I see ahead of me the death of freedom. I morn because I see the further decline of our nation. I morn because I fear my brother dying in Iraq for an unjust war. I morn because I imagine more terrorist attacks and death. And I morn, most of all, because I realize that I am unable, with all of my being, to remain in this country as one of its citizens with George W. Bush as my leader.

It is unfathomable, and I weep and it's horrific reality. I must decide if I will leave my country for a country that will not seek to invade the privacy of my body, or sexuality, or political opinions, or try to take away my access to the freedoms I am endowed with. I can no longer live in the United States of America, when my elders have so severly disappointed me, and so severely put my future, and the future of my peers at risk.

I refuse to accept Bush as my leader and will never consent to any of his or the GOP's agendas. I don't know yet what is the right path for myself, but I sincerely fear the future for all of us.