Join or Die

Day 618, 16:09 Published in USA USA by Blake Chrysostom

eUnited States of America!
We have heard this war described in many ways, but few have called it what it truly is:
This war is a war for the survival of the eUSA.

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eAmericans, I am not merely being a doomsayer or a pessimist. I am being a realist. If we do not band together, our country will cease to exist, or it will exist only as a tiny shell of its former self, a puppet to the whims of PEACE like Australia. But that is no existence at all.

But there is hope, and I see many positive signs of cooperation between political parties and across every sort of dividing line in our country. But still, PEACE's strongest weapon lies in our discord.
Let me paraphrase our great forerunner, Benjamin Franklin, substituting names where necessary:

"The Confidence of PEACE in this Undertaking seems well-grounded on the present disunited State of the United States, and the extreme Difficulty of bringing so many different Parties and Assemblies to agree in any speedy and effectual Measures for our common defense and Security"

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PEACE's most powerful ally is our disunity. There is mistrust, there is antagonism, there is strong disunity pervasive among the eAmerican population. I myself have been a part of it, I admit.

I served a term in Congress a few months ago, representing the state of Kansas. When the time came from my election, I felt confident in my return to Congress, feeling little threat from the young USWP upstart who challenged me, LexLuthor1. However, what happened was not what I expected. I suffered a crushing defeat at the hands of Lex. I felt betrayed, angry, bitter toward the USWP. I sat back from eUS politics for awhile and brooded on what had happened. I dedicated myself in secret to turning back USWP power, all while I claimed membership in a party resolved to putting the country over partisan interests.

But all of this has changed now. Lex and I have reconciled. He admitted he ran against me in Kansas only for the challenge, regardless of my activity as a Senator. I admitted my negative feelings, and we both confessed a distaste for the pungent nature of current eUS politics.

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If Lex and I can demonstrate anything, we can show that the political situation in our country can change. And we must change.

Let's us turn back in our RL history once more to the closing words of our Declaration of Independence, in which our Founding Fathers banded together, overcoming ideological, regional, religious differences to bring our country into existence:

And for the support of this declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of Divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor.

And that should be our pledge as well.

-Blake Chrysostom