I love your blog but I don’t understand the way it’s laid out and I’m confused. But that’s okay…I’ll figure it out long enough to post this letter from my sister, the beloved Stargirl. It was written to our parents, in response to their incessant Republicanesque taunting of her so that they can feel some power. She’s really tired of it. She just feels like their collateral damage so they can make their narrow-minded point.
She works her ass off as a teacher and is the breadwinner of her family, and she can’t believe her ears that at the GOP convention, she heard that the solution to the problems in public schools was to “get rid of the bad teachers”. Of course, that is just the tip of the nauseating iceberg that was the convention we all gagged upon.
As the informed, thinking party, of COURSE we watched the convention. But alas, “Did you watch the convention” was my parents’ rhetorical piece of garbage bait they laid before her once again in order to get her goat. They have no interest in her values nor any intention of trying to understand them.
No more, she said…it’s useless to talk sensibly with them. She ended the conversation with this letter. (I’m sorry to have taken up so much space, but MI suggested I do this):

Dear Mom and Dad,

Don’t ask me if I saw the Republican Convention, unless you want to know what I saw. I saw people cheering for hatred. Hatred of everything I hold to be true in a great America… the ridiculing of community activism, the disgust for teachers, schools and teachers’ unions, the mockery of parents who have sacrificed career advancement for the sake of their children, the pity of the poor fools who didn’t marry millionaires or have the misfortune to get shot down in Vietnam…and incredulously they called this “patriotic.”

What I saw was a crowd who was finally energized because they have a polarizing figure as VP on the ticket …someone who they truly hope can create a real “culture war”…small towns against big cities, red against blue, black against white, Christian against Muslim, PTAs against teachers, talk radio against America, family against family … This is what they called “Country First.” In his final words, to a roaring crowd, I heard the candidate say “fight…stand up and fight!”

I saw some brave fighters in that convention hall, three protesters of an immoral war in Iraq, grabbed and escorted out of the room… and then I was told by the candidate for president not to be “distracted by the ground noise and static.” Will we ever stop sweeping away the nation’s consciousness while wasting our treasures on this war?

You don’t have to ask me if I saw the Republican Convention, because I’m watching this election closely. I had the nerve to google: Sarah Palin, obviously before the McCain camp did. I’m one of those “liberals” with questions that will not be allowed of this new Vice Presidential candidate. I’m one who hopes the press will be allowed to ask questions before the likes of O’Reilly and Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity cleverly sell a woman they hardly know to the American people. I hear them repeat the Republican talking point- an outcry for the “bullying” of a self-proclaimed “pitbull in lipstick,” Sarah Palin. They are bringing back the war of the sexes: one war that I thought was over before I even became a woman. How many wars do they plan to provoke in order to create enough “ground noise and static” to distract us from the real issues so that the Republican Party can retain their power?

Finally, since you are my family, please don’t ask me about politics ever again because we never end up feeling like we belong to each other. At first, I always feel a need to “stand up and fight” like your candidate encourages us to do. But then I realize, like him, you only want a fight to justify why you pity me… for working too hard, caring too much, and marrying a blue-collar man. After one of these “fights” I feel like collateral damage in your war against the bleeding heart liberals.

It is why I tell my daughters “You can be anything you want to be…you are going to make the world a better place”… I hear you implying that I am pandering to them. I do not define success by the amount of money in a bank account but by the love and compassion in a heart… I hear you advise my daughters to marry wealth. Wealth alone will not ensure a brighter future for this family. I don’t want to be a pitbull in lipstick, and I don’t want you holding one up as a role-model for your granddaughters, so I say…ENOUGH!

I don’t want you to call me names anymore….bohemian, juvenile delinquent, socialist…ENOUGH! Our time together is short and I am passionate about the America I envision for your granddaughters and grandsons. I know this is a disappointment to you, but I’m clearly not going to be able to please you. My focus is on the future. In America, you may support any ideology you choose. I am going to knock on doors for mine today.

Your daughter,
xxxx

Drugs not Hugs!
Make Love not War (and make babies)

You can teach, you can preach…but all it takes is a 5 minute stupid attack to gain a dependent. If you tell kids NOT to do something, they immediately go out and do it. Everyone knows that, especially Palin’s kids.

Bristol: Did you know the county of MA Murk and I both live in is Bristol?

C.Rag: I was waiting for you appearance

I love blogging feuds.

I hate AngryMan. He sucks giant elephant dick.

Will you be my next Baby’s Daddy?

If Murk isn’t free, I’ll take his brother.

So Malach will you be my next Baby’s Daddy after Murk?

I can pick winners. So you two will have get my name tattooed on your ring finger.

He just gets it.

Eve: Cool, when’s lunch, you probably still brainwashed from your time in TX

Ben: I am surprised no bad reviews from the usual yet

Colonel: As someone who works with at risk teens, ABSTINENCE TRAINING IS STUPID!

MI: I would love to be one of those $5mil a year Middle Class

Murky: your the exception, and yes, it is a stereotype, and not all the evangelicals are like that but most are.

We don’t so hugs around here, just freindly noogies

ready- 1… 2… 3… ***HUG***

Put me in an institution said it was the only solution, said I need professional help to save me from the enemy myself!