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Oh my fucking god it's all a nightmare but that girl, JFC what in the actual fuck is wrong with my country? It's not like shame at being American is new to me and it's not like I don't know my government absolutely doesn't give a fuck about me, it's not even new anymore that my daughter has less rights than I did at her age, it's not that I don't know the history of my government helping set up corporate friendly fascist regimes after supplying arms and training all over South America. But I just can't fucking stand it my taxes are killing children in their hospital beds while my rights are taken away in the name of protecting children. Monsters.

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This is what I sent to Congressman McGarvey.

This is the second email I've sent him about the situation in Gaza.

Keep in mind he is the only Democratic representative from Kentucky in Washington DC currently. I voted against him in the primary and he's doing all of the nothing I predicted he would, just worse. Neoliberal wealthy family white guy. I'm not voting for anyone insane enough to run on a Kentucky Republican Party ticket ever. But I have to hold my nose way too often while I do it.

Representative Mcgarvey;

Just checking in to see if you've grown a conscience yet? Now that 10,000 children in Gaza have been murdered do you think you can find the courage to call for a ceasefire? Since you had no problem using your children's medical history to help your campaign to let us know how much you cared about your family could you please explain to me how you could have possibly found it appropriate to remain silent when Israel left Gazan NICU babies to die? True most of them are orphans now so they won't be needed to appear in political campaigns. Also true if you've remained silent this long you are likely ok knowing that given time, if there's a Gaza left to return to, the IDF will murder these children and say they were forced to because they're Hamas. Did you know that even under years of blockade, illegal detention, and intermittent acts of violence the literacy rate and school completion of Palestinian youth and particularly Gazan youth is almost 20% percent higher than the state you represent and the country that state is part of? It puts the lie to a lot of assumptions about education and commitment to the future our leadership claims to be working to make gains in when you see that a captive people, living in subjugation and treated by the world as nothing more than animals or future terrorists managed to educate their children better than the most powerful nation on earth. I really would like a response from you personally, not your staff. I want to be sure it's your own words being used to blow off every point made above and tell me again why and what exactly it is we're supporting Israel in this Christmas nightmare. How do you expect me to believe you have the best interests of your district top of mind when you are unwilling to condemn the murder of children, teachers, doctors, journalists and poets simply because they were Palestinian? This will never be erased from your legacy, I'm deeply ashamed to be represented by cowards and hypocrites and I want you to think about those dying NICU babies every time you see the faces of your children for the rest of your life.

Sincerely,

Rachel B

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