PROCREATION
What a Difference a Life Makes
By FuZ


A very good number of my friends have children or are working on it.

This condition has always made me wary. I have long feared the dynamic and seemingly inescapable changes that having a child seems to introduce.

Some of those I know are famous for having flip-flopped from a youthful "I'd rather be free" political stance to a position much more forgiving of grievous abuses of civil rights in the interest of being "safe" because of the introduction of their respective little bugger.

Well, now I have a child. And let me say for the record that I'd rather be free than safe any day.

Safety without freedom is not life. Freedom without safety at least holds the promise of magnanimity.

When I think about this upcoming election and the prospect that GWB might be elected for another term MY STOMACH LITERALLY CHURNS and I've often felt a bit choked up. That my child's first four years of life might be in this US of A that once stood for freedom but now stands for suspicion, fear, aristocracy, and dwindling rights. That my child might have to believe that she does not grow up in a FREE COUNTRY. That this will be her America - where schools are intentionally bankrupted, wars fought interminably, longstanding allies pushed away, where theocracy sets the rule of law, where racial prejudice is in vogue again, where fewer and fewer people can get a job or healthcare or a retirement but also where the tax burden is increasingly shifted onto those who live week to week, month to month.

If GWB is re-elected, I'll be giving my kid an America that is less strong, less great, less respectable, less prosperous, less free, less peaceful than the one I grew up and loved my whole life.

My child has debt amassing upon her infant shoulders even now to the tune of thousands of dollars because of the blown surplus and huge deficits of the Spendthrift-in-Chief.

Perhaps we should just start calling it the American Myth after November 2nd if Bush is re-elected.

That "dream" will probably be unattainable for a lower middle class youngster in the 21st Century if things don't go well this year.

Please vote. Vote for America. Vote for your family. Vote for my child's future. Vote John Kerry.


GO AHEAD! TALK BACK AT ME!!!