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As you say, you may have become older, but when I look through your
site, you seem to be yesterday's hippies who, though older,
have not grown up. Of course, you may also be the children of
hippies. That too is possible.
America is a centrist country. Centrist Left is fine, Centrist Right
is fine, but we are a centrist country, not a far left progressive
or Socialist one. You people seemed to come
out of the woodwork with the election of President Obama
and I can't help but wonder why. Still, you are a fringe, a
tiny part of our Republic. Of course, it's a free society so
you are more than welcome. I just hope you don't manage
to do too much harm before you fade away once again.
Of course I do not support Mr. Obama. I do not trust his intentions
for our country. In my opinion, he ran as a centrist and then turned
sharply far left secular progressive - once the highest office was his.
A peaceful uprising you say? The center right or left also hopes for an up-
rising before our Constitution becomes a thing of the past and many
of our freedoms are lost. But I give you too much power.
America is a Republic. Why is that so hard for those like you to digest?
I have friends all over the world, some who never have really been free,
yet, incredibly, they do not like the U.S. as it presently is. Capitalism is
a bad thing to them.
Perhaps we should all move to Venezuela?
I do not mean to be rude, but you people do not know what you
have, and because you don't understand how lucky you are, you
seem to want to tear down instead of build up. Tear down what
you think of as the 'old ways,' I mean.
Again, I do hope I'm wrong.
Perhaps I will see some of you at an 'uprising' someday. We can
peacefully shout at one another across the political divide.
Regards,
Ayasha
USA - Ayasha is an American Indian name meaning 'little one'
and no, because I am part Indian, I don't think anyone owes me
something because 'the land was stolen from the 'Red Indian.'
'Land stolen from the Red Indian' is how some of my South Asian
friends describe what happened so long ago. It's one of their anti-
American diatribes. Still, we are friends. We just don't agree. I do
not feel entitled - they think I should.
