Letter to the Editors of Red State Newspapers
Bravo middle America! Until election day, I was worried about what you were going to do when your job is outsourced, when you find privatized social security isn't enough to live on, when you can't afford healthcare, when you're arrested for something you didn't do and find you have no civil liberties, when global warming's hurricanes and tornadoes destroy all you've worked for, when a corporation poisons your drinking water (I drink bottled water), or when your sons and daughters are killed in Iraq.
I don't worry about myself. I'm only thirty, making close to $150K a year, and it's only the beginning. I won't need social security, I will buy my way out of any legal trouble, my investments are diversified enough to survive natural disasters, my kids will get a superb education in private school, and believe me, on a salary like this, my health care costs are not a problem. Best of all, you can bet that - like George Bush - neither I nor my kids will ever be caught dead in some foreign war. That's what you're for!
Privilege has its perks. While you were voting based on feelings about an abortion you'll never have or gay people you don't know, you increased my tax cuts and made my life easier. Yours will get harder, and in the process, you will get what you exactly what you voted for. You got played, middle America, and all of us "latte drinking liberals" and the rest of the rich thank you for being too stupid to realize it.
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