Dear, US of A

An open letter

The United States of America 

Any zip code 

Dear (North) Americans 

Although we may not always like the way you go about things, we cannot but acknowledge the principal role you play within the strategic global hierarchy. To pretend it's otherwise would be utterly nonsensical. 

Ergo: you wield enormous political and cultural power and you've produced some darn fine people, innovations and other neat stuff that influence cultures everywhere. 

We might not agree with your strange spelling and pronunciation but that's small potatoes in the scheme of the world AND you gave us this little old thing called the Internet and what's not to like about that doozie? 

So please tell us why in the "land of the free" you haven't seemed to realise that the corporate mercenaries who sponsor your major politicians also sponsor (read: own) the media which is why they persist in telling you that the two newsgrabbing clowns aka Clinton and Trump are the only choices you've got. 

They're not. 

And you should be mightily glad about that. 

YOU DON'T HAVE TO VOTE FOR EITHER OF THEM! 

Really. 

There's Johnson, Weld, Stein and other independent politicians who aren't psychotic, sociopathic megalomaniacs hellbent on a path of totalitarian insanity that's going to be bad for us all, campaign rhetoric (read: bullshit) notwithstanding. 

There are options. There really are. 

Stop reading the Washington Post and the other sycophantic media outlets that want you to believe this is all you've got. 

It's not. 

You've got the power. 

Use it. 

Please. 

Because frankly, we like you - a lot actually - but you're scaring the shit out of us... 

Sincerely 

A lot of us in the west