In article k.net,
Maxprop wrote:

"Jonathan Ganz" wrote in message

Right about where we are today. This country is on a downhill slide. This
is good evidence of it.

Isn't it about time for you to leave, Jon? I'll bet Alec Baldwin, Barbara
Streisand, or Sean Penn will have an extra seat on their private jets for
you, if ya ask nicely.

**** you Max.

But I'm not going to leave, and here's an example of why....

From Salon.com:

Many of my liberal friends are seriously discussing leaving the
country, for Canada or Europe or New Zealand. It is, of course,
tempting. How could we not feel a violent disillusionment and
disconnect when we discovered this morning that the majority of voters
in the country have a worldview we cannot comprehend? That hate and
fear and ignorance can run a successful presidental campaign; that
people will respond to these things with eager glee?

And if I wasn't tempted before leaving the house, one look at my car
with its Kerry/Edwards bumper sticker -- the only car with such a
sticker in the lot -- and how overnight it suddenly acquired a
political statement consisting of eggs and shaving cream -- the only
car in the lot so decorated -- certainly pushed me in that
direction. I imagine the decorators (or their parents) voted on
"moral values," as so many Bush supporters did.

But I'm not going to leave, and I made a list of reasons why.

Because I'm not letting them have New England autumns, New Mexico
sunsets, the Grand Canyon, or Revere Beach.

Because Barack Obama, Ted Kennedy, Barney Frank and a few other
stalwarts are isolated enough in a Capitol gone mad without their
supporters pulling up and getting out.

Because over a million people voted for Alan Keyes, and that means
even in Illinois we can't relax.

Because Massachusetts elected a far-right religious zealot in a
gubernatorial race no one bothered to vote in.

Because I do, honestly, want my kids to be American citizens.

Because 200 years ago Americans believed in a separation of church and
state, and if there's one thing we seem to be good at, it's regression.

Because we have to speak up even if they're not coming for us
personally yet. We're educated and energized and relatively
financially secure, and there are a lot of people out there who are
none of those things and are at least initially going to suffer far
more than we are. We have to speak for them if they can't speak for
themselves.

Because this is still my country, and being pro-choice and and an
environmentalist and a pacifist and a believer in intelligent leaders
and an atheist does not make me un-American or unpatriotic -- and that
needs to be screamed from the ****ing rooftops.

Because they vandalized my ****ing car, and that is their level of
discourse.

Because I am not afraid anymore. I am angry.

--
Jonathan Ganz (j gan z @ $ail no w.c=o=m)
http://www.sailnow.com
"If there's no wind, row."