I Guess I Lost My Cool

I just couldn't take the intensely hypocritical Young Republican National Committee any longer. I had to email the kids (yes - they are kids... no offense) after seeing this recent news release.

I'm not going to take a page to reproduce the thing, so go read it first if you want to make more sense of my email to the YRNC:

I work for the Department of Veterans Affairs, am a former GOP voter, and am a 4-year-college degreed workforce professional.

I find the likes of young people like yourself to be sickeningly misrepresentative of everything that the Republican ideal used to stand for. I'm a staunch advocate of intellectually-honest economic theories and am intensely spiritual; you're politically-motivated followers that support a disrespectful, inefficient, resource-gobbling war and you're ethos-challenged quasi-Christians.

I'm patriotic because I feel love and pride for this country, and I express it by responsibly *using* the gifts granted me by this life, by the Constitution and its Amendments, and by our laws; you bastardize any "patriotic" claims by expressing some bizarre fixation, unquestionably supporting this *administration's policies* rather than honestly supporting this *nation* (which is a collection of people, ideas, social mores, and the like), instead wasting your talents on memorizing and reciting your myopic sociopolitical views.

I'm no "leftist" - I'm RIGHT HERE working to help physically and psychologically injured combat veterans whilst the VA stood tall in the wake of a pathetically under funded conflict; YOU LEFT your military comrades hanging to dry by continually supporting a policy which severely limits the post-conflict support for brave men and women of our armed forces.

Lastly, I'd ask "Do you people have any sense of decency, Sirs?"... However it's apparent that that your words (and lack of actions) indicate that you're neither currently capable of incorporating decency into your sheltered lives nor are you willing to make the effort to discover the true meaning of what you'd need to do in order to lead a life that accommodates decency as a virtue.

You're lucky that our troops haven't discovered how your rhetoric doesn't chime with your actions.

Michael Tuffli

p.s. notable spelling/grammar errors attributed to metaphorical and physical exhaustion

Meh. Feh. Pfft.

I know it was pretty snarky but it's late and I'm fed up with rampant ignorance and repulsive dishonesty. I'm sure it won't affect any young (R)s, if it even gets read/posted/ravaged, but at least I got to vent... and post it here (always for posterity, right?)...