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richardf8About 6 Months ago, I wrote the following:
OK, my fellow Americans. Are you SO willing to keep people you've never heard of from getting married that you will vote for a president who:
1) Took office by appointment because he couldn't get votes,
2) Turned a significant budget surplus into the hugest deficit this country has ever seen,
3) Established a precedent for pre-emptive war that has made it permissible for any country to attack another at whim,
4) Established new environmental regulations that guarantee your children the god given American right to suffer from asthma and mercury poisoning,
5) Had all the information in hand to bring 9/11 to a halt before it came to very much, but passive-aggressively allowed it to happen so that he could use it as political capital to
6) Spy on your purchasing habits, unlawfully detain you indefinitely without due process, and declare peace protestors enemy combatants,
7) Oversaw the hugest hemorrhaging of jobs from the economy, which will not be recovered even at current levels of growth,
8) Wants to hand the Social Security benefits you've paid all of your working life over to the care of the Enrons and Worldcoms of the world,
9) Pushed a medicare reform bill that funnels your tax dollars directly into the pockes of the Pharmaceutical and Health Insurance industries?
Do you hate gays SO much that you are willing to DESTROY AMERICA just to prevent two people you've never met from getting married?
George W. Bush thinks you do. In fact, he's counting on it.
I guess I have my answer now: reported by Mako
And Mako -- Do not mistake mob rule for democracy. They are two different things - the latter guarantees freedom, justice, and peace, the former guarantees a holocaust.
These initiatives were placed on the ballot so that people would be enticed to come out and vote their hate, and for the person who will do the most to uphold that hate. We are barreling toward a holocaust, and tonight is our last chance to apply the brakes. God help us all if we fuck it up.
OK, my fellow Americans. Are you SO willing to keep people you've never heard of from getting married that you will vote for a president who:
1) Took office by appointment because he couldn't get votes,
2) Turned a significant budget surplus into the hugest deficit this country has ever seen,
3) Established a precedent for pre-emptive war that has made it permissible for any country to attack another at whim,
4) Established new environmental regulations that guarantee your children the god given American right to suffer from asthma and mercury poisoning,
5) Had all the information in hand to bring 9/11 to a halt before it came to very much, but passive-aggressively allowed it to happen so that he could use it as political capital to
6) Spy on your purchasing habits, unlawfully detain you indefinitely without due process, and declare peace protestors enemy combatants,
7) Oversaw the hugest hemorrhaging of jobs from the economy, which will not be recovered even at current levels of growth,
8) Wants to hand the Social Security benefits you've paid all of your working life over to the care of the Enrons and Worldcoms of the world,
9) Pushed a medicare reform bill that funnels your tax dollars directly into the pockes of the Pharmaceutical and Health Insurance industries?
Do you hate gays SO much that you are willing to DESTROY AMERICA just to prevent two people you've never met from getting married?
George W. Bush thinks you do. In fact, he's counting on it.
I guess I have my answer now: reported by Mako
And Mako -- Do not mistake mob rule for democracy. They are two different things - the latter guarantees freedom, justice, and peace, the former guarantees a holocaust.
These initiatives were placed on the ballot so that people would be enticed to come out and vote their hate, and for the person who will do the most to uphold that hate. We are barreling toward a holocaust, and tonight is our last chance to apply the brakes. God help us all if we fuck it up.
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Date: 2004-11-03 05:07 am (UTC)I'm of the opinion that both of the candidates are are baboons and our oxen are going to be gored, whether from the right side or the left, it doesn't matter.
Look at the vox populi as expressed in the popular vote counts: It's a less than 2% spread between the two primates.
As for the gay marrige vote, that's running 2:1 to 3:1 pro ban, a stunning number that clearly speaks how gays are perceived in those states. We Are Not Amused, but that is how a democracy works. What started at Stonewall will never be over in our life times.
We can work for change or we can grab the pot of ashes and fire up the wail-o-matic, it's our choice.
CYa!
Mako
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Date: 2004-11-03 05:28 am (UTC)Those things are not mutually exclusive. ;)
Jonah seemed to effect a great deal of change with a pot of ashes and a wail-o-matic. (Have you got plans for one of those BTW - I think a TI SN76477 hooked up to a fender amp would be a good starting point).
Seriously though, I find it a bit disheartening that so many Americans place such a high value on minding other peoples business for them.
I've been thinking about where we need to focus our energies. For example, I'm appalled that the only solid resource I found for Judicial Races in Minnesota came from the GOP. That means that more Republican voters are equipped to vote their agenda in these races than non-republicans. Of course, the advantage of using GOP-Authored material is that in it they are not going to hide a candidate's religious affiliation that might give the general electorate pause.
But I also wonder just what, short of an all out revolution, can fix our system. The problem isn't the Republicans or the Democrats. The problem is a corporate oligarchy that owns both and thus reduces America to a de-facto feudal society. Think "Jennifer Government," which I think is the sort of book you might enjoy, if you have not already read it.