Open Letter to Our Electoral College

The following letter was also sent privately to all members of the Electoral College that have published their contact information. A list of their emails can be found at the bottom.

Dearest Electors,

Sometimes the most important battles to fight are the ones you know you have no chance of winning. Do I believe that this letter will convince any or all of you to change your mind? No. But I’m not interested in winning. On this day, November 15th 2016, I can say that I did the only thing I was able to do in order to prevent this country's potential downfall. I can hold my head up high until the end of my days knowing that I made my voice as loud as I possibly could. I write this in desperate hopes that you too may choose this route, not to fight because we will win, but to fight because it’s what a rational, patriotic American should do.

I do not know what interests Donald Trump represents. Perhaps big business, perhaps Russian, or maybe it’s only his own, but I do know whose interests he does not represent and that is the American people. We have allowed Russia to influence our election. The America I grew up loving, the America I was taught about in history books, would never allow a dictatorship with opposing interests to have a hand in any decision made on our soil. We must not allow this. Trump was briefed that Russia was involved in this and willfully misrepresented the situation to the country. I consider this nothing short of treasonous behavior. 

The American President should represent the best aspects of our country and I wake up at night in fear of this man and the irrevocable damage he is capable of doing both here and abroad. It is this type of fear that is sparking protests all around the United States.  One does not need to consult any source in the “liberal media” to come to a conclusion about the dangerous character of the man, one can simply listen to his own words. I do not have the space in this letter, or the will to revisit many of his racist, sexist comments, but I never dreamed we may be looking at a president who once said the words “Grab her by the pussy”, let alone think I would have to type those words to our Electoral College representatives.

This goes far beyond party lines. John McCain, Mitt Romney, and Paul Ryan, are all decent, hardworking Americans who I do not see eye to eye with. Yet, with any of them in charge, I would not lose a moments sleep as I believe in my heart of hearts that they are good, well-intentioned people who have a deep love and respect for this country. This isn’t about being a sore loser, I personally do not identify as a Democrat. This isn’t about social issues. This isn’t about immigration. This is about a true danger to democracy and the pulling of wool over our eyes due to Russian interference.

Before winning, Donald Trump cast doubt on our great nations’ democratic system by claiming it rigged. It is truly frightening to consider that he may have been telling the truth, but not in the way we thought. We are putting a man into power that stated he may not accept the outcome of an election unless it benefited him. What is stopping this man from claiming the exact same thing if he is voted out in 2020? Only this time, he will have the power of a military behind him. 

Do you have the ability to change that? Perhaps yes, perhaps no. But by either voting for another party or abstaining your electoral vote you could at least know that you didn’t contribute to it. You could look at your children, grandchildren, sons, daughters, neighbors, and strangers and know in the depths of your soul that it wasn’t because you didn’t do anything. I am standing up and fighting a battle I have no chance of winning. 

Please join me.

Josh Roush

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Voting for Sanders Isn't Enough. We Need Trump.

I know what you're thinking, and yes, we all hate him. Hell, I suspect even his constituency hates him. But for just a few moments I want you to entertain the notion with an open mind. As a country we've tried to abolish poverty, racism, and sexism through legislation, education, and dialogue. While we have indeed made some meager strides toward these goals, they've been largely ineffective. It's been an estimated one-thousand, nine-hundred and eighty three years since the death of a man who espoused such radical notions as feeding those who cannot feed themselves, loving one another, and forgiving each other’s transgressions. That's an estimated 66 generations that have handed down this man's teachings to a world that is populated by 32% of his followers and yet, this country has only recently given homosexuals the same rights as straight people.

The people who are voting for Bernie Sanders are well-intentioned, but it's not enough. It's time to choose the nuclear option. In order to inspire the amount of disdain, anger, and violence that it takes to produce a true revolution, we need to elect Donald Trump.

Failed Revolutions

Before you overreact, think back to the 1960's. Revolution was inevitable. The Black Panthers and the Hippies and The Weather Underground were on a course to change the planet. Whether or not that was for the better is of course debatable, but all of those failed for the same reason: Tiny Victories. A tiny victory is allowing Blacks to have equal rights while over 60% of the population incarcerated are Black. A tiny victory is allowing women the right to vote while keeping their wages 21% lower than males. A tiny victory is giving Americans the promise of free health care, while instituting a complex system that financially penalizes them for not purchasing it. These tiny victories have been just enough to appease the populace and keep revolution at bay.

The world has always had an undercurrent of racism and sexism in our populace that inevitably re-emerges when a leader such as this rears its ugly head from the cesspool of human-indecency. Our only chance at cleansing this mark against humanity is to clearly identify the enemy by putting them into absolute power so that they may be violently overthrown. It's time that we stop thinking about our own well-being and resign ourselves to losing a battle in an effort to win the war. We need to subject our children to absolute hell. Like a spur to a horse, let us provoke a new generation with a leader and a constituency that is openly sexist, racist, and homophobic. Let us finally do away with gently teaching the upcoming class of young men and women to be good to one another through gentleness and love. Let us reintroduce the rod to show our children the horrors of this world so that they will be forced to fix it themselves.

Exceptional art comes from
exceptional times

If one needs proof that having a tyrant in charge of the country inspires the best that humanity is capable of, simply look to the arts. While the vile creature that was President Nixon was in power we were gifted with songs such as Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young's Ohio. As a response to the overlord that was Margret Thatcher, we received the gift that was The Clash. But it's not just music, Italy's world-war torn economy led to the birth of the Italian Neorealism Movement which focused on the glum, meaninglessness of life in such beautiful films as Umberto D. Hell, even before modern media the Dadaism Movement sprang forth in the early twentieth century as a response to the First World War. Give humans tiny victories and they remain complacent. Give them a tyrannical force of oppression and hurt them during hard times and that's when you see the true mettle of man, the product of which will inspire generations to come.

From Far Wreck Chords

Like many of us, I had the horrendous honor of growing up under the power that was the George W. Bush Regime. As he invaded a country under false-pretenses while using fabricated evidence, I got to watch the biggest powers of Rock N' Roll and Punk Rock come together in the unified spirit of waking up the youth. Unfortunately, as is their habit, the youth chose to remain dormant. The reason for this is that George W. was passively evil, not actively. The poor sap was little more than a marionette controlled by Donald Rumsfeld, Dick Chaney, and Karl Rove and thus, not truly repugnant enough to inspire change. This is where Trump oozily outshines his competition, he represents the worst of the bottom of the barrel, and as Mark Twain once said. "If we would learn what the human race really is at bottom, we need only observe it in election times."

Trump will inspire the change this country yearns for while triggering the type of change this country needs. They will get the chance to spit their rhetoric about keeping Muslim's out of the country while we read books to our children about how our land was once a home offered to refugees. They will eliminate half of their army by kicking out gay's and women as we recruit from their castaways. They will bask in their entitled white-heterosexual-male excess like the Roman Orgies of old while we teach our children the guerilla tactics of Che Guevara. Hitler came to power under the popular misconception that the Jewish people were to blame for their problems. If our country wishes to be ruled by a man who blanketly blames Muslims for the threat of terrorism and Mexican's for a lack of jobs, then by god let America grow fat on a third helping of desert while we gruelingly train for battle.

Trump in 2016

If a large population in our country is prepared to run Donald Trump for President of the United States, then we need him to become the President of the United States. If the Republican Party no longer represents small-government and fiscal conservatism, then let it stand for blinding hatred and let us wholly embrace them for it. If this is indeed the way that the nation is swaying, then let us do away with tiny victories and let them have this one for once. Let us all stand back and watch the country fall so that we might one day actually reclaim it from the people that seek to destroy it.

Voting in Bernie Sanders would be just another Tiny Victory that we don't need.

We need a hard loss.
Vote for Donald Trump.