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Thank you, Republicans, for contributing to the engineering of the animal that types this message.
I grew up in a blue collar union household. I saw, first hand, how well a working man could do for his family when he organized with others and formed a union. Your hateful, provincial, elitist anti-labor fire breathing resulted in the devastation of the union movement and as a direct result, the loss of health care for my family. At the time, my mother was diagnosed with cancer. My father almost lost our home trying to pay for her health care bills. For the first time that I could remember, he was forced to work two jobs to pay the bills. The struggle that my family endured bore witness to the hypocritical family values of the conservatives.
Watching my father wallow in the swamp of debt left an impression on me that I am, to this very day, unable to shake. I attended University, occassionally, but never completed my degree. Even if I could have gotten the loans necessary to put this adult learner through school, the prospect of living under the crippling debt that my father had left me frozen. Besides, by the time I thought about college, I had a baby whose immediate needs were more critical than college. Of course, we had no medical insurance and made pittance wages. Still I attended classes when I could afford it. Had I finished, I would have been the first in family to graduate, but it never happened. It's a damned shame, too, as whenever I did attend, I was 4.0 student.
So I raise a child and after twenty years of shit wages, of struggle, of crappy health care, of no dental work, a bankruptcy, divorce and subsequent second marriage (to a wonderful woman), through fight, struggle, clawing, tenacity and LOTS of LUCK, I land a job that moves me out of the blue collar world and into a desk job, one that pays a decent wage and offers the health care I never had before. Some teeth were too far gone, and so they were yanked. Others, I'm having cleaned and filled. After twenty years without anything but emergency room medical care, I'm afraid to see a doctor for what they might find!
Now, after twenty years of struggle, I have time to think about the ways in which i can contribute to the defeat of the conservaNazis that destroyed my father's life, and left me and my family struggling for 20 years. Now I have a little extra money to send to organizations bent on wiping you bastards off the face of the earth. Now I have the time and money to invest in strategizing the political defeat of the fascists that have ruined my country.
Thank you, Republicans. Because of you, I'm a radical unionist, a class warrior who realizes, like the IWW, that your interests and mine are diametrically opposed, a political pitbull frothing at the mouth with foaming blood and industrial strength anger, and I don't fear any of you. You sons of bitches have created a monster, and now, at 40 years old I have the time and resources to fight back.
I'm your Frankenstein.
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