Reply #61: When we prove the 2004 election was stolen, a Snoopy/Yellow Dog ticket... [View All]

[Fly by night]

... would carry the South. If there's anything that my middle Tennessee neighbors are, they are patriotic and conservative when it comes to how they want their government chosen and run. They also "walk the walk" when it comes to their spiritual beliefs. So far, we have made a lot of traction locally by pointing out that the smirking chimp is not patriotic (in his personal non-service to country and in his reckless foreign policy), not conservative (when it comes to his fiscal policy and his rape of the Bill of Rights), and he is not "walking the walk" on any spiritual path they would recognize (being a serial lier, a mass murderer ("who would Jesus bomb?"), a suck-ass to the rich and privileged and a despoiler of God's green earth). Despite the rigged vote to the contrary, many bedrock conservatives here voted against the Chimpenator in 2004 for all of these reasons.

When (not if) we prove that the 2004 election was stolen, that one fact will demonstrate that Duh-bya and his handlers are neither patriotic, conservative nor morally sound -- and the South will be the first region to reject him and anyone standing near him in a heartbeat. They will also reject out-of-hand their faux religious leaders who will be transformed overnight in their congregations' minds into what they really are -- money-changers in the temple. The truly righteous indignation that will flow from the South, the Southwest and the Midwest will bury the Republi-Nazis forever; and transform religious practice to boot.

Three things have to happen for this to take place:

1) We need to keep the lines of communication open with our conservative neighbors and re-take the "values" playing field by framing it as I have alluded above. This will continue to be easier and easier as more soldiers returning from Iraq and Afghanistan speak the truth to their friends and family about the "fog of war" and the illegitimacy and futility of all we are doing over there (basically making the world safer and more profitable for oil barons and heroin merchants).

2) We need to prove the election theft and prosecute its perpetrators vigorously. As far as my experience goes, the evidence we already have on hand has been effective in persuading many skeptical people that -- indeed -- the election was stolen. And Mitofsky's recent report only helps our cause, it does not hurt it. This body of evidence is obviously convincing many more Americans every day, given the 50% increase in the past six weeks in the proportion of Americans who believe the election was stolen. That's a pretty steep learning curve and we need to keep accelerating it by continuing to expose the evidence and then acting on it in every court in the land (including the court of public opinion). We need to win this case, convincingly.

3) We need to get rid of the voting machines and/or create a paper trail (verified by each voter and certified by the people with a routine random re-count after every election). That will be tough but that's why we're here -- to do the heavy lifting. This struggle is also likely to get weird, but as a great American cultural philosopher once said, "... when the going gets weird, the weird turn pro."

Here in middle Tennessee, we're doing the heavy lifting by creating our own slate of state-level election reforms and working to get those reforms passed in this legislature. We are also working hard to sponsor a national conference here in Nashville on the 2004 election theft and the need for election reform (and I hope to have some good news on that score this week -- stay tuned.)

So don't surrender the South -- we are where true change occurs. Remember that Nashville was where the first real successes in destroying segregation as an accepted cultural tradition in our region occurred. Remember that women finally won the right to vote in this country because one young Tennessee representative broke the tie in our state legislature and caused that constitutional amendment finally to be ratified. Why should we stop leading the charge for what's right, for what's patriotic, for what's democratic, for what's moral now? There is no reason. So don't feed the lingering prejudices against the South by saying that a progressive ticket can't win here. With our growing mass of heavy-lifting pros in the Orange State, anything is possible.

If you don't believe it, hide and watch. Or better yet, turn pro and start lifting with us, all y'all.