It’s Veterans Day today, and to all the service members and their families who have upheld the Constitution in the past and do so today, thank you for your sacrifice and service to this nation.
I’m sorry republicans don’t want to pay you, though. I’m sorry they starved children–some probably your children–and used you as pawns so that they could pry healthcare away from millions.
That’s the reality of the situation.
I’m sorry republicans abandoned you in foreign countries, leaving other governments to ensure you’re fed. I’m sorry republicans have broken promise after promise after promise while smiling in your faces and blaming the other guy.
You deserve better.
You deserve so much better.
And I hope, as republicans continue to fight to use you against your fellow citizens, fellow legal residents, against visitors to our nation which was imperfect but pretty great up until January, you will remember that oath to the Constitution.
Not to any one man.
Or party.
But to the Constitution of the United States.
She’s tattered right now. Sorely abused.
When I think of the people honored on this day, people who have put their lives and bodies on the line to protect democracy, and what republicans have done to you, how they’ve discarded you, abandoned you, treated you like inconveniences, it saddens me in a profoundly deep way.
Republicans even stripped mention of veterans who are not white men.
And yet I have faith. I have faith that veterans, active, not active, may just be the very line that holds, the very thing that resists the total destruction republicans have their eye on.
So thank you, veterans.
But the job’s not done yet.
We are far from safe as a nation. So far right now that we can’t even see it in the distance.
Thank you for getting us at least to here. I hope, I sincerely, deeply hope, you will see us through the rest of the way.
Have a wonderful day, veterans and non-veterans alike.
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