Reply #45: Catharsis? [View All]

[nonconformist]

Not so much. It should make you weep for humanity and fear for democracy, but hey... whatever gets you through the day.

And I call bullshit on being "anti-Bush". We have four more years before there is another election (well, we hope they'll be one...). It is our civic and moral duty to speak out and fight back when your country is being ruined by fascists with a frightening agenda.

In case you weren't paying attention, there were PLENTY of us who supported John Kerry, his ideas and positions in a positive way. Did we still speak out against Bush? Absolutely. Did we underscore Kerry's positive and progressive ideas when voicing our support of him? Absolutely.

You can't change why people vote they way they vote. Some vote against someone more than they vote for someone and that's always been the case. Don't think for a moment that a lot of people voted against Gore because of Clinton's cock. It's just the way it is and the nature of people. But don't think for a moment that we didn't have a message of hope, because we did. Some people chose not to listen to it, but that isn't completely our fault. Bush ran on fear and spreading lies about Kerry. Kerry ran on hope and exposing the truth about Bush.

Who had the better day? Thought so.

There will be plenty of time in the upcoming weeks and months for us to figure out how we can reach more people with our message. But the bottom line is that unless we change our stance to that of hate, fear, racism, bigotry and fascism we're not going to win over Bush supporters. Our message is trumped by the personal interests of the rich and the desire of of a theocratic rule by the fundies. They wanted four more years of Bush and now we've got it. When the country turns to shit, maybe some will wake up. That's our only hope short-term. Long-term depends on our children... sadly, they average more kids than us.

One thing I agree with the fundies on - the Rapture can't come fast enough. Once they're all gone, maybe then we can have some normalcy.