Player Hatin' at its Finest
Now that this election cycle's starting to look like a tidal wave against the GOP due to McCain's failure to shore up support in battleground states (a bad thing for America, IMO, if one party runs everything...they'll inevitably overextend themselves and there are no checks on the dogma/revenge to be exacted), the desperation of the Republicans is being nakedly bared. According to top Repubs, liberals hate real Americans and the (generally blue) cities aren't pro-America or even better - if you're liberal, you're automatically anti-American:
Yes, silly season has turned into naked aggression and fearmongering in America, with screams of socialist, communist, and marxist being applied to anything blue. But I pray this time it will not work. I believe in a 2 party system, in checks and balances, but I also believe that disagreement is, at its heart, one of the most American parts of this nation's civic discourse and that the time has come for the Republicans to lose their grasp on power should the people so will it.
I pray this time we won't be fooled, bullied, cajoled or tricked into voting with our fearful lizard brains, or the apathetic-couch-potato brain, or the McCarthyist-conservative-reactionary-vote-with-your-Bible brain, but with the brain of reasonable Americans living in THIS world, seeking change and an opportunity to turn the direction of our country at one of those precious, few-in-a-lifetime moments when we can actually influence its direction.
There's still a chance this will somehow work, that we will as a people be tricked into believing that change can't happen or mistake the viciousness of the rumors for veracity. In that case, maybe America deserves what it gets, and we may be watching the beginning of something much bigger and much scarier than just this election. 75% of people believe the country's going in the wrong direction - if we somehow commit to going in the wrong direction, or even the SAME direction, how long do you think it will take for those 75% to release their majority? How many more do you think would be willing to take action to correct it, outside the political process? Maybe Jefferson will finally see his dream realized, and a revolution (velvet or otherwise) will ripple through the structures of our society. I don't want that, but if we have leaders who implicitly label the functions of democracy socialism while using the fascism of terror and financial dominance, what choice do we have?
Now that this election cycle's starting to look like a tidal wave against the GOP due to McCain's failure to shore up support in battleground states (a bad thing for America, IMO, if one party runs everything...they'll inevitably overextend themselves and there are no checks on the dogma/revenge to be exacted), the desperation of the Republicans is being nakedly bared. According to top Repubs, liberals hate real Americans and the (generally blue) cities aren't pro-America or even better - if you're liberal, you're automatically anti-American:
Yes, silly season has turned into naked aggression and fearmongering in America, with screams of socialist, communist, and marxist being applied to anything blue. But I pray this time it will not work. I believe in a 2 party system, in checks and balances, but I also believe that disagreement is, at its heart, one of the most American parts of this nation's civic discourse and that the time has come for the Republicans to lose their grasp on power should the people so will it.
I pray this time we won't be fooled, bullied, cajoled or tricked into voting with our fearful lizard brains, or the apathetic-couch-potato brain, or the McCarthyist-conservative-reactionary-vote-with-your-Bible brain, but with the brain of reasonable Americans living in THIS world, seeking change and an opportunity to turn the direction of our country at one of those precious, few-in-a-lifetime moments when we can actually influence its direction.
There's still a chance this will somehow work, that we will as a people be tricked into believing that change can't happen or mistake the viciousness of the rumors for veracity. In that case, maybe America deserves what it gets, and we may be watching the beginning of something much bigger and much scarier than just this election. 75% of people believe the country's going in the wrong direction - if we somehow commit to going in the wrong direction, or even the SAME direction, how long do you think it will take for those 75% to release their majority? How many more do you think would be willing to take action to correct it, outside the political process? Maybe Jefferson will finally see his dream realized, and a revolution (velvet or otherwise) will ripple through the structures of our society. I don't want that, but if we have leaders who implicitly label the functions of democracy socialism while using the fascism of terror and financial dominance, what choice do we have?
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