A terrible feeling...

I can't shake this feeling of betrayal. Every time I think about it, I feel like I got stabbed in the back by my neighbor or cheated by a friend. It hurts. And the worst part is how big of a step back we took.

I'm so sick of the American public being paralyzed in fear. How easily can you be brainwashed into going against your very convictions?

Massachusetts is the state where you get to be yourself, where you are accepted for who you are. It is where progressive thinkers live and where equality is a real possibility. It is not a place where you have to fear for your right to love the person you love, or where your skin tone has to dictate your social potential. What happened to us? How can the whole world think we made a great choice with Obama and a terrible choice with Brown? Is the whole world wrong? Be real! Progressive countries like Holland, where equality and freedom are real, actually started to believe in us again. And now we have just shown ourselves as swayable in our convictions, regressive in our thinking, and unable to see advertising and media bullshit for what it really is! Look what happened last time we let this happen...George W. Bush took away our right to privacy (and we didn't even make a peep in protest).

Listen, I know change is scary! I know! But when a system is broken (like the US healthcare system) and so dysfunctional that it is bankrupting the people it is supposed to be helping (again, like our healthcare system), you have gotta take the plunge and make the change. Every great healthcare system in the world is socialized and universal. We can not even compete. So what are we holding onto? The right to pay $1000 a month for a healthcare plan that makes you fork over co-pays, doesn't cover emergency ambulance rides or medication that doesn't offer a generic option and either doubles in price or drops you completely the second you get sick? Or is it the system that costs so much that many low income families can not even dream of getting care? Wow, both of those options really sound like something worth fighting for! Really? I just don't understand it. In fact, its mind blowing, never mind embarrassing.

I'm scared for the fate of our country. If Massachusetts can fall this far off the wagon, I'm scared to see what the rest of the country is capable of. Please, please, please, give us our progressive state back (either that or I am moving to Canada)!