Dear Stupid

That would be you, the person who thinks Facebook and Twitter are reputable news agencies. You’re the one who thinks that $160,000 worth of ads placed by Russians tilted the entire 2016 election. You don’t know a thing about Benghazi (no, it’s not a shoe designer), or care about some 30,000 missing emails or keeping your doctor if you like him. You’re an educated person who still doesn’t know how to handle your own finances.  Having racked up student loan debt you now cast your lot to anyone who will relieve you of that account. It’s easy to do that when they also throw in you won’t even have to work.

Your compassion is beyond reproach until you have to act on it. Millions of illegal immigrants are hunkered down in this country but not a one of them lives in your house. You know for a fact that the oceans are going to overrun Florida in 12 years but you’re certainly not going to stop taking vacations requiring planes or cruise ships. You like heating and air conditioning and darn it, aren’t they a right not a privilege?

Taxing the rich is only logical. As Willie Horton would say, “That’s where the money is.” It’s not stealing if the law says they must pay, right? Of course, you want to be rich too someday but you’ll deal with that when it happens. You’ve grown up coddled at every turn thinking it’s the government who is your benefactor when in fact, it was all those taxpayers; you know, the 50% of people who actually pay income taxes.

You think that socialism is a utopian societal construct, well, because that’s what your professor told you. You skipped world history so you don’t know the real story about socialism.  You may have missed the part about how governments are responsible for more murders of their own citizens than all the wars combined. Look up Stalin or Mao Tse Tung for a primer on what is to come should we become a socialistic state. Not here you say? With people like you voting, I wouldn’t dismiss it. You certainly weren’t paying attention to American history in high school. Our Founding Fathers put their lives on the line so you can speak ill of our country. You feel just as willing to keep someone from speaking and, gee, isn’t that the same thing?

I encourage you to actually think for yourself and seek information that truly informs. I have hope that if you do, you will form your own opinions, not parrot those of your peers or some phony “journalist” and certainly not fall prey to social media tabloids. Time to grow up kid. Democracy takes work and you’re on the clock.