Tim Barrus, New York Times

I do not want to live in an American rat race. I do not want to live in America where there is hunger for the poor, and the aristocracy laughs. I do not want to live in an American nightmare where cops are the military and the military are the cops. I do not want to live in an America whose lack of values and morality create a nation of monsters. I do not want to live in an America whose schools teach nonsense like your pledge to your flag, and your deathwish to remain loyal to a dish rag. I do not want to live in an American version of a capitalism that sees workers as deserving of a whip because they do not work hard enough and faster and faster and faster. I do not want to live in America where class and cast are the same animal. I do not want to live in an American version of a theocracy empowered to kill us with no impunity whatsoever. I do not want to live in America with the religious police breathing down my neck. I do not want to live in the American divide where so many bodies have been buried in a warrior culture of death and domination. I do not want to live in an America where children are regarded as beneath contempt. Yet you want more children. I do not want to live in a toxicity that is determined to pour poisonous lead into water systems mainly racial minorities drink. I do not want to live in America where old white men control female bodies, but will have nothing to do with impoverished kids. I do not want to live in an America where social media is hatred.