Patchwork Speculation

[ladysprite]

Okay. The election is over, the sky is still blue, and while I'm not happy I'm willing to pick up and get to work and see what I can do to help keep things from becoming worse. Maybe nothing, but we'll see.

I do have to get one small melodramatic rant off my chest, though; please bear with me until I'm done.

I'm American. I disagree with our president, and I don't like what he's doing right now, but that doesn't change what I am and it doesn't make me any less proud of it, because there's so much more to this country than whoever happens to be standing on the highest point shouting that he's in charge for the moment.

I'm a tree-hugging, puppy-cuddling, velvet-wearing, hair-dying, RPG-playing, net-addicted, F&SF-reading, SCAdian, dancing, grad-school-indebted, DAR-descended, vanilla, tea-drinking, lapsed pagan, Kerry-voting American. I'm married to a long-haired, tie-dye-wearing, Doonesbury-reading, science-geek, pun-addicted son of immigrants, and he's American. I have friends from other countries, but most of my friends are from my own country. They're tall, and short, and black and white and red and every shade in between. They're guitar-playing, poetry-writing, Shakespeare-reciting, monogamous, polyamorous, bowling, knitting, novel-writing, English-major, science-geek, pregnant, wheelchair-using, Morris-dancing, kosher-keeping, magic-working, shy, argumentative, passionately individualistic Americans.

America is more adjectives than I can ever list. And I like it that way, damnit. And if even one of those goes away, fleeing to Canada or wherever, well, if they feel safer that way then I guess I can't argue. But I'll be upset, and sad, because America will be that much smaller and less colorful, and that much closer to being what everyone is afraid it's becoming.

So. Overly purple prose and excessive drama over. Now I can get back to my regular stream of cute kitten stories and sleepy rambling. Sorry to have diverged.....

Comments

From my quotes file

[autographedcat.livejournal.com]

"I'm a patriot. I love my decadent, cosmopolitan, self-indulgent,
racially mixed, godless, intellectually dilettante, drug-abusing,
promiscuous, queer-loving country. And its flag is the Stars and
Stripes."
--Patrick Nielsen Hayden

and, from the same source,

"Anyway, the America that's worth fighting for is one in which we can
call our President a royalist scum-sucking halfwit who stole the
election, and do so while holding our flag high. That's America and
I'm for it. "
--Patrick Nielsen Hayden

[pagawne.livejournal.com]

You have it right, my Dear Lady.

[wcg.livejournal.com]

I'll be sticking around.

[icecreamempress.livejournal.com]

Thank you. That was beautifully put. (And hey there, fellow DAR!)


(You don't know me, but I'm a friend of Charley and Marsy Sumner's, coming to you through the magic of friends' lists.)

[pixel.livejournal.com]

"Brava! Brava!

That was very well written, and mirrors my attitude on the subject. I've had to bite my tongue when friends talk about dashing off to Canada."

[ealdthryth.livejournal.com]

Well said. As I commented in cellio's journal, I have no intentions of leaving the south. I have lived in North and South Carolina for 40 years (less 4 in New York state). I like the geography if not the politics. But it's still my home.