MADOREABLE

the undeniable evidence of rome (photo used without permission or credit, sorry)

Dear Anti-American Grand Old Partyists, Insurance Lobbyists, and Opponents of the New Deal or the Success of the Great Society,

What you bastards fail to recognize is that America has placed a new mandate on the future. You sincerely believe that if you close your eyes and shout “lies” and “death panels” long enough that, one day by some method of indiscriminate magic, you will wake up and it will be 2005 again. We, the undersigned of the Constitution of the United States, have spoken: we demand change, and not the kind of regressive change which, if given sway for the last 100 years, would mean that women wouldn’t be able to vote, own property, or decide what goes on inside their own bodies in addition to meaning that McCorporations would be able to pay less than nothing for the only commodity that pumps funds back into the local, national, and international economies effectively in ways that create economic growth (read: labor)–would mean that a certain percentage of the doctors we do have would have never gotten the Pell Grants that got them started–would mean that a high school education would still seem unnecessary–and would likely also mean that we’d still be in Vietnam. In addition to the many thousands of other times your ilk were proven wrong by history, of course. No–the mandate is for the kind of change which feeds the hungry, houses the destitute, welcomes the immigrant, heals the sick, educates the young, and generally keeps this country strong enough to compete with the rest of the post-industrialized world. Your demands are disgusting and may prove a catalyst for horrors even you cannot imagine. We did it in 1776 when nepotism, arrogance, and aristocracy threatened to tear down our homes. Your children may well curse you fools in 2076. Compromise is akin to surrender and, as the wise man said, the arid torpor of inaction will be our demise.

Sincerely,
Time Magazine’s 2003 Person of the Year