November 14th, 2006
To My Conservative Brothers and Sisters,
I know you are dismayed and disheartened at the results of last week’s election. You’re worried that the
country is heading toward a very bad place you don’t want it to go. Your 12-year Republican Revolution has
ended with so much yet to do, so many promises left unfulfilled. You are in a funk, and I understand.
Well, cheer up, my friends! Do not despair. I have good news for you. I, and the millions of others who are
now in charge with our Democratic Congress, have a pledge we would like to make to you, a list of promises
that we offer you because we value you as our fellow Americans. You deserve to know what we plan to do with
our newfound power — and, to be specific, what we will do to you and for you.
Thus, here is our Liberal’s Pledge to Disheartened Conservatives:
Dear Conservatives and Republicans,
I, and my fellow signatories, hereby make these promises to you:
1. We will always respect you for your conservative beliefs. We will never, ever, call you “unpatriotic” simply
because you disagree with us. In fact, we encourage you to dissent and disagree with us.
2. We will let you marry whomever you want, even when some of us consider your behavior to be “different”
or “immoral.” Who you marry is none of our business. Love and be in love — it’s a wonderful gift.
3. We will not spend your grandchildren’s money on our personal whims or to enrich our friends. It’s your
checkbook, too, and we will balance it for you.
4. When we soon bring our sons and daughters home from Iraq, we will bring your sons and daughters home,
too. They deserve to live. We promise never to send your kids off to war based on either a mistake or a lie.
5. When we make America the last Western democracy to have universal health coverage, and all Americans
are able to get help when they fall ill, we promise that you, too, will be able to see a doctor, regardless of your
ability to pay. And when stem cell research delivers treatments and cures for diseases that affect you and
your loved ones, we’ll make
sure those advances are available to you and your family, too.
6. Even though you have opposed environmental regulation, when we clean up our air and water, we, the
Democratic majority, will let you, too, breathe the cleaner air and drink the purer water.
7. Should a mass murderer ever kill 3,000 people on our soil, we will devote every single resource to tracking
him down and bringing him to justice. Immediately. We will protect you.
8. We will never stick our nose in your bedroom or your womb. What you do there as consenting adults is your
business. We will continue to count your age from the moment you were born, not the moment you were
conceived.
9. We will not take away your hunting guns. If you need an automatic weapon or a handgun to kill a bird or a
deer, then you really aren’t much of a hunter and you should, perhaps, pick up another sport. We will make
our streets and schools as free as we can from these weapons and we will protect your children just as we
would protect ours.
10. When we raise the minimum wage, we will pay you — and your employees — that new wage, too. When
women are finally paid what men make, we will pay conservative women that wage, too.
11. We will respect your religious beliefs, even when you don’t put those beliefs into practice. In fact, we will
actively seek to promote your most radical religious beliefs (“Blessed are the poor,” “Blessed are the
peacemakers,” “Love your enemies,” “It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a
rich man to enter the kingdom
of God,” and “Whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers of mine, you did for me.”). We will let
people in other countries know that God doesn’t just bless America, he blesses everyone. We will discourage
religious intolerance and fanaticism — starting with the fanaticism here at home, thus setting a good example
for the rest of the world.
12. We will not tolerate politicians who are corrupt and who are bought and paid for by the rich. We will go
after any elected leader who puts him or herself ahead of the people. And we promise you we will go after the
corrupt politicians on our side FIRST. If we fail to do this, we need you to call us on it. Simply because we are
in power does not give
us the right to turn our heads the other way when our party goes astray. Please perform this important duty as
the loyal opposition.
I promise all of the above to you because this is your country, too. You are every bit as American as we are.
We are all in this together. We sink or swim as one. Thank you for your years of service to this country and
for giving us the opportunity to see if we can make things a bit better for our 300 million fellow Americans —
and for the rest
of the world.
Signed,
Michael Moore
mmflint@aol.com
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