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Goodbye |
Nov 3, 2004, 14:01 |
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My concession speech:
"My fellow Americans, I conceed that I was wrong about you. I thought a majority of you believed in the accomplishments of the progressive movement, believed in protecting human rights, believed in protected our fellows from discrimination and poverty. I thought you wanted to bequeath a better world to your children than your parents gave to you. I thought reason was triumphing over superstition, that science was improving our understanding of the world, and that these gifts of humanity to the future would blossom into a more perfect union of all peoples. But you have proven me wrong.
"I am tired of fighting religious zealots, corporate thieves, commercial con-artists, and age-old stupidities on your behalf. I am tired of seeing the nation turn its back on its own citizens and on the bright future we could have made together. My heart is not strong enough to carry on against fifty-five million people who disagree with me so strongly on what I see as an obvious four year disaster.
"I know that this makes me a poor patriot, a weak citizen, a blind, ivory tower-dwelling joke. I concede this, and I apologize for it. But I cannot change it.
"So, my friends, I am leaving you to whatever fate you choose for yourselves. I have no illusions of finding a bright land where progress and reason are valued over stubborness and faith. I may even continue to live and work among you, and hope for you to one day come to your senses. But I cannot wear a shredded heart on my sleeve, or fly my tattered hopes high in a strong breeze. A great storm is coming, and you have brought it on us all.
"If I may borrow the science fiction allegory, who is taking us toward the future of Star Trek? Are we not on the path to Blade Runner, to Neuromancer and the Sprawl? Who is our Luke Skywalker? Or, returning to the classical roots of our civilization, it seems Plato, Aristotle, and Thucydides were right, that Marius, Caesar, and Augustus saw clearly, while Sophocles, Euripedes, and Homer were wrong. Man cannot rule himself, and others shall enslave him. Tis better to rule in Hell than serve in Heaven.
"I am not going to post on politics or current events anymore, nor pride myself on following the news. I simply hope I do not live to see the coming day when government of the people, by the people, and for the people perishes from the Earth.
Goodbye." |
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