After an election, it isn't always easy to forgive, forget and move on. And although it's disheartening to believe that the leader of your country is a wrong-headed and dangerous person, it's far worse to realize he was eagerly chosen by a self-riteous and gloating majority. Some of us feel deep in our heart that Americ isn't realy the place for us, that perhaps we belong somewhere else, in a country where good people live. There are parts of the U.S. where I know know I could not live, not because of the red of blue color on the electoral map but because of the narrowness of the residents' minds and the darkness of their hearts. Might we not be better off as two separate nations than as one in which half of us are forced to accept the will of the other half?
Larry Herbst, Pasadena, CA
(not that i fully claim his point of view as my own, but the not belonging here definitely hits home with me).
along such lines, check out this canadian website:
http://www.marryanamerican.ca
someone please rescue me! ha ha ha.
16.11.04
this week's TIME
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thanks for the comment, red. i don't think i would go so far as to interpret calling the "other side" "narrow-minded" and "dark-hearted" as a hateful message. maybe mr. h would, but i wouldn't at least. and i think that his suggestion that we may be "better off as two separate nations" is a little bit beyond my opinion. it just that what he said about USA (i don't use America b/c it's too general) not being the place for some of us is exactly how i felt in the days after the election.
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