An Open Letter

When I was little, my parents never told me they were Democrats or whatever. They tought me what was important in life and that was to take care of yourself, respect others, and try to help out when you can. I want people to love who they want (and yes, two STRAIGHT people can be in love and not have a little Christian marriage), die when they want if they are terminally ill, follow the religion they want or none at all. I want to make sure that all of us have all the same chances as everyone else as long as they are willing to work for it. Yes, people who are hardworking can be poor and those who are wealthy can be the laziest person around. Wealth does not equal success, it's how hard you push yourself and how well you treat others. I didn't consider the ideals my parents taught me to be associated with one polical ideal or another, but when it comes down to it, I start to wonder. I have many friends and family that fall on the conservative line and I enjoy their company. Yet it does disturb me that some of their beliefs are focused around self-serving ways. It could be that they are misunderstanding something and I do know they are good people, but when I hear some of those people shout out at those town hall meetings, I feel a little sad that there are people in our country that get that angry over our country, the United States of America, trying to take care of everyone.

Dear conservative,

Why is it you condone the torture of another human being for the “safety” of your country, yet fight with fury to prevent all of your brothers and sisters from being covered by health insurance at the falsely rumored chance it would inconvenience you?

You also want to take control over a woman’s body and/or someone who is terminal based solely on your mythical/religious belief yet are all for killing a human who is scientifically alive and conscious?

You claim you have the right to your beliefs yet expect the entire country to follow your ideal and your ideal only. Liberty would allow all to live the life they want as long as they are not hurting anyone else, yet conservatism would constrict everyone to one way despite their personal beliefs.

But to stick on the health care issue, I am just flabbergasted beyond belief that you go on and on about someone with cancer being dropped because they are sick and so on. Do you people know what insurance companies do? They do that horrid thing to people all of the time because they are allowed to. People go into debt because they are unfortunate enough to get sick. Even though they pay an arm and a leg on a monthly basis to be “covered”, on a whim their insurance company can decide they don’t want to continue to cover them and they love to pull out that “pre-existing condition” clause. And if you think that is bad, what about the folks who don’t have anything? Insurance companies are private businesses who only has to answer to themselves. Hell, I know how much I get screwed over by my wireless and television company. They change their fees and rules all of the time and I end up paying up the ass because they say so and I still want to keep what I have. Thank god it is for recreational uses and not something like my health...BUT that is exactly the kind of game the insurance companies play with you all. Like I’ve always said: I can vote to change the leaders of this country, but can’t do a damn thing about a fat cat CEO of a company.

Oh and even if it was true the wait time would be longer because all these people could go to the doctor, what type of person are you to say your life is more important than anyone else’s? That is especially for all you so-called Christians. You only consider those who are straight Christian white men who earn an x amount worthy of protection.

I want us all healthy. I want us all to have equal access to education. I want us all to not be judged by how much we have but how much we do. I want us all to be who we want to be and live our lives according to our own paths and beliefs as long as we do no harm to others. And please, something inside someone elses body is part of THEIR body and you cannot use your religious 'beliefs' to make legal and scientific claims...and also you cannot tell me two people in love hurt you if they don't fall into your safe category. We do not want companies running ourlives (and a lot of them do control a large part of our country), we want our country protect us from entities like that. For a strong country, we need to take care of each other.