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Dear America, Why Did You Let Us Down?
NYSlimes ^ | 12/16/16 | Lisa Pryor

Posted on 12/18/2016 7:33:03 AM PST by madprof98

In Australia, and around the world, we have been living this presidential transition with you. We watched the debates on our lunch breaks, we scrolled through news on our phones as the voting results were announced, in the warm light of a spring day.

Since the election I have cried many times, in the shower, in the car, as the conventions that define liberal Western democracy are stripped away by Donald J. Trump, with every distressful appointment, each impulsive outburst. I have embarrassment of grief for a government that is not mine and for a country that does not belong to me. It feels as if we’re mourning the death of an idea called America.

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Visiting America itself gave us the sensation of having stepped into the television, into something bigger and better. For a time when I was a teenager my father worked in the coal industry in West Virginia. He would return with stories about new things we could not imagine, like cable television with 50 stations. Packed in his suitcase were running shoes for us, in styles that had not arrived here yet. That was more than 20 years ago.

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For all the intractable problems in our region, there is a sense of forward movement. When we visit America now, it feels like the opposite, like decay. Roads, airports, an economy, perhaps even a society, falling to pieces. We are left in awe by the extreme poverty as well as the extreme wealth. And maybe it is because of your poetry about yourself that the turning current has been harder for Americans themselves to see.

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TOPICS: Australia/New Zealand; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: handwringers; precious; snowflake
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To: madprof98
a government that is not mine and ... a country that does not belong to me

I think that sums it up nicely ...

41 posted on 12/18/2016 8:21:51 AM PST by IronJack
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To: sassc2

“Letting them down?”

This moonbat Aussie broad should thank her lucky stars that Americans, including some of my relatives, helped saved Australia from the prospect of a Japanese invasion during World War II.


42 posted on 12/18/2016 8:23:49 AM PST by july4thfreedomfoundation (November 8, 2016..... Donald Trump schlongs Hillary Clinton. 306 Electoral Votes)
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To: madprof98

How nice to be lectured by some foreign leftist asshat.


43 posted on 12/18/2016 8:25:56 AM PST by SIDENET (My next tagline will be so awesome.)
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To: madprof98
"the conventions that define liberal Western democracy are stripped away by Donald J. Trump"

Give an example, you hysterical moron. He's not even president yet - how can he have "stripped away" anything?

For some of us, seeing bakers fined $135,000 for not baking a cake for a gay wedding says that America's values have been stripped away by people like you. Good riddance.
44 posted on 12/18/2016 8:26:51 AM PST by Steve_Seattle
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To: madprof98

Her screed belongs under humor. I really thought it was satire.

But if she really wants an answer to her question, how about “Because you have been letting us down for more than 40 years”.


45 posted on 12/18/2016 8:27:25 AM PST by Let's Roll ("You can avoid reality, but you cannot avoid the consequences of avoiding reality" -- Ayn Rand)
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To: Gaffer

Exactly what I was thinking.

I wouldn’t go to this crazy loon who calls herself a “doctor” if I was freaking dying!


46 posted on 12/18/2016 8:28:19 AM PST by july4thfreedomfoundation (November 8, 2016..... Donald Trump schlongs Hillary Clinton. 306 Electoral Votes)
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To: madprof98

The poor lady has been steeped in leftism since birth. The America we once knew? Try going a bit further back in history to get a larger perspective.


47 posted on 12/18/2016 8:28:42 AM PST by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: madprof98
For all the intractable problems in our region, there is a sense of forward movement.

Into a pit.

48 posted on 12/18/2016 8:29:18 AM PST by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: madprof98

Self serving spoiled brat....she thinks she knows the US. Yet never once does she speak of our founders who pledged their lives, their honor, and their wealth in order to set us on the way. Nor does she speak of any of the documents, speeches, constitutional conventions, or any of the writings that make us great. Her history of the US seems to begin in the mid last century.

In all of that she misses who and what we are. We live Teump because he knows what came before


49 posted on 12/18/2016 8:29:48 AM PST by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
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To: IronJack

True... she COULD just go away. Don’t go away mad, just go away. It isn’t your season any more.


50 posted on 12/18/2016 8:31:04 AM PST by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: Tonytitan
"When we visit America now, it feels like the opposite, like decay. Roads, airports, an economy, perhaps even a society, falling to pieces."

And she's blaming TRUMP for this? This is the kind of stuff Trump wants to fix. The woman sounds literally crazy, irrational, and I wouldn't let this weepy, mentally disturbed "doctor" within a hundred yards of my family.
51 posted on 12/18/2016 8:32:05 AM PST by Steve_Seattle
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To: madprof98

Enjoy Christmas, knowing that your tears bring great joy to many.


52 posted on 12/18/2016 8:33:02 AM PST by gundog (Help us, Nairobi-Wan Kenobi...you're our only hope.)
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To: madprof98
For all the intractable problems in our region, there is a sense of forward movement.

Into a pit.

P.S. I wonder if she's an assisted-suicide believer. Maybe that's the sort of forward movement she has in mind. Let's get this aging and dying thing over with, no sense thinking about what one might do prior to that point, or which might even stave it off in measure.

53 posted on 12/18/2016 8:33:15 AM PST by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: madprof98

Blow it our yer arse, Sheila!


54 posted on 12/18/2016 8:33:40 AM PST by bigbob (We have better coverage than Verizon - Can You Hear Us Now?)
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To: Bob

Exactly. She cites all of these statistics about the long-term decline of the U.S. relative to the rest of the world, and especially China. Yeah, that’s why Trump got elected dumb*ss!!!!


55 posted on 12/18/2016 8:33:45 AM PST by Behind the Blue Wall
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To: madprof98

What a stupid bitch.

Obama would “necessarily” destroy the coal industry.

She cites it as a point of inspiration.


56 posted on 12/18/2016 8:34:34 AM PST by eyedigress ((Old storm chaser from the west))
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To: Steve_Seattle

She thought an ever more Santa-Clausy government was the fix to every ill, rather than the recipe for coming up short of funds to fix the most crying needs!


57 posted on 12/18/2016 8:34:37 AM PST by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: fieldmarshaldj

Mistake closing the mental hospitals and putting the inmates back out on the street.


58 posted on 12/18/2016 8:34:46 AM PST by OldArmy52 (All change is progress.)
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To: madprof98; fieldmarshaldj; Grimmy; akalinin; Eric in the Ozarks; LYDIAONTARIO; Tonytitan; rktman; ..
One of the things you need to do is check the Twitter feeds of these snowflakes before you post their drivel.

Their online Twitter tears are like drinking a fine wine, or aged Scotch/bourbon.

https://twitter.com/pryorlisa/with_replies

Some of the best ones are where they haven't gone totally berserk, and started tweeting a couple hundred times a day [@sarahkendzior].

That way, you can scroll down to November 8th and before, and the fun begins. :)

59 posted on 12/18/2016 8:35:24 AM PST by kiryandil (Will Hillary's BrownShirt Media thugs demand that The Deplorables all wear six-pointed Orange Stars?)
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To: eyedigress; OldArmy52

See my post #59. :)


60 posted on 12/18/2016 8:36:25 AM PST by kiryandil (Will Hillary's BrownShirt Media thugs demand that The Deplorables all wear six-pointed Orange Stars?)
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