A Plea

I am sure many of you think you can attest to my political views.

I promise you might get half of them right.

But almost anyone can easily identify the most important of all concepts to me. That is the most important political concept ever conceived and elucidated, and it goes something like this:

All Men are created Equal.

Why the dumb, sappy one that everyone quotes?

Much like all the “dumb, sappy ones” like ‘Then we must do no harm.’, ‘There is no price too grand to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.’, ‘Upon all the Living, and the Dead.’, ‘The misery upon us is but the passing of greed.’, ‘There is a field. I will meet you there.’, ‘Judged by the content of their character.’, and ‘But you will respect each other.’, to truly live the expanse of every aspect to the political ideology that every creature of any form of sentience is, by the most essential aspect of worth, Equal, is perhaps the most difficult belief a person can have.

The dumb, sappy ones: they are the hard ones.

They challenge us not because they are idealistic. They challenge us because they show us the truest depths of what we can be. Of what we should be.

And Americans, whether you like it or not, you are the most loud and obnoxious of all about the concept of “live up to your potential” garbage, so yes, you are most culpable when you do not just fail, but you blatantly disregard trying.

I am sure many people take my current absence from the country as evidence of me being unfit to judge. It is fair to say that since my rise into true adulthood, I have spent more time outside of America than in it.

I wish I could say I see it as a bad thing, or that I miss any aspect.

I do not.

I do not miss dimwits prowling on about how saved they are by the light of their invisible sky fairy friend.

I do not miss paying for services that barely work anyway and even when they do they usually are barely worth the minimal price being asked.

I do not miss morons arguing over why they are apparently so special and important that their “freedom” should come before other peoples’ safety.

I do not miss everything being about how far you can shove your head up your rear and the most important task you can do all day is convince other people you eating waffles is of genuine worth to know.

I do not miss the most blatant and offensive form of hypocrisy on the planet – I do not miss it at all.

If you view me as harsh and overly critical…I suppose my complete breaks with many aspects of my life were long overdue.

Yet I can defend my points, even my last one.

Americans jabber on and on and on about “exceptionalism” and how inspiring it is to be American. I have now lived in South America, the Middle East, and China. Guess what – the only “exceptional thing” I see is how exceptionally awful you are at being helpful, and exceptionally awful it is that your greatest characteristic is the tendency to blow things up.

I will give a little credit: Americans should brag about their goal to be exceptional. It is the very essence of our birth. To be an American, so far as I can see, means that in 1776, you would have signed that document too. You would see the worth of a cause of more than just Liberty and Freedom – you would see the very heart of Humanity in what you hoped to accomplish.

You should brag that this is what you are born into.

You are not living up to it though.

Not in any form, fashion, format, or fantasy.

I wish I did not have to bring up the most recent example, but I do.

I was going to avoid voting. I am honestly slowly becoming sick of the whole damnable process. I went through the rather considerably annoying troubles of voting abroad for this reason and this reason only: If I have to go to my grave knowing I did not do at least something to stop that orange skinned sociopath, I never could truly forgive myself.

Donald Trump is NOT an American. I said it, and let me reiterate.

To be an American means that there are a set of principles you hold as the most important things in this world.

They matter more than your life.

They matter more than your faith.

They matter more than your family.

They matter more than your feelings.

They certainly matter more than your money.

To be an American means you surrender what you were before and become one of those few who truly believes in the full depth of those words immemorial.

Donald Trump is the worst of the misinterpretations and bastardisations of the concept of what it is to be an American.

He is not an American.

If he is an American, I do not want to be one.

He is a sociopath.

He uses the concepts of Freedom and Liberty to excuse himself from being culpable for his grossly inhuman and inhumane behaviour.

And MANY of you (almost everyone who reads my blog is from Europe and North America…sorry, but it is just reality) are just as bad.

I cannot stay silent on this for this reason only: even after people in these many countries get to know me, they still think of me as their American friend. To them, I represent America. Maybe that is part of why my friends do not understand my criticism, because they do not think such a country could make someone who would gladly give his own life for their happiness. I must be blunt though.

It was my decision to forsake everything ‘America’ as it is now that made me into that person.

For me, that is the most disappointing realisation of all. It does hurt me. It makes me wish for something better.

You do not have to be this though.

You are the product of that grand ideal. You are better than what you are right now. You can be great, not because you are American, but because it was an American who introduced Humanity to that most important ideal.

Stop being so afraid. What about this world is scary? Is it scary that not everyone thinks you are the best? GET OVER YOURSELVES!!!!!

Of course people disagree with you.

Stand up and look them in the eye and be strong and proud. Do not skulk away and blow up their country for giggles.

So let me make my point extremely clear.

If you vote for Donald Trump, you are not an American. You do not believe in that most fundamental ideal of what it means to be an American. You are a cowardly, slimy, unbegotten, wretch of a human who thinks it is better to cast a protest vote than attend a protest, because it seems easier to just ruin something others depend on than possibly lose something you want but do not need. A vote for that thing is a vote to end the most important aspect of what America truly is.

Do I think Clinton is so great – no. Not by a mile.

Clinton is like getting hit by a car for the tenth time – sure it hurts, but it has happened to you before, and you know you will survive.

Trump is like getting stepped on by the kaiju from Pacific Rim.

You are not merely dead – your essential existence has been obliterated.

If you are truly fed up with the system our government has now, fine. I completely understand.

Here is what you do: the next time anyone who has served more than two terms for ANY political office comes up for re-election, DO NOT vote for them. If you want the politics to change, than get rid of the current class of politicians.

The president, whether you understand this or not, is primarily a figurehead. The ideal president REPRESENTS what America is to the world. I am not saying Clinton is perfect, but she can at least pull an Edward Norton, and make it REALLY convincing.

If you elect that sociopath, you are telling the world ‘Please forget that whole ideological and meaningful tomfoolery we spouted back in 1776. This is who we are now. Never expect anything better.’

If that is how low we have fallen, then let me be clear: I will NOT be a part of that America. That is not America. That is a nightmarescapee from the nether regions of Chuthulu’s dark abyss.

So in my final comment I beg only this. Americans, please, I beg you, I beseech you, I implore you, in the name of anything that can be called righteousness, DO NOT GIVE THIS SOCIOPATH EVEN ONE VOTE!

Show the world we are not so pathetic and cowardly and dash this sociopath’s hopes as harshly as is possible. Tell the world that this is not us. We do still believe in those great words and that ideal.

If you truly want to change the government than elect new governors, new representatives, new Federal Representatives, and new Senators. That will change the government. Electing this sociopath will only serve to prove the fact that (yeah, this is real) most people see us as nothing more than boisterous, noisome hypocrites.

In the name of everything we as Americans truly hold sacred, please cast nigh a vote for this man. We can make America great again, but only if a man like this can NEVER again be taken as serious outside of a locker room, and even there seen as the excrement that he is.

On behalf of everything America truly is, I beg and plea with all my heart, DO NOT, now or ever, let anyone like this sociopath represent who and what we are.