Reply #114: Well, hello! [View All]

[bigmonkey]

What a disgrace to myself that I made you quite so angry – I apologize about the intensity.
I've been politically active myself for about 38 years, starting with demonstrations against the Vietnam war in 1970. I haven't got quite your number of hours in, but I've been canvassing, working with one of the PIRGs, doing phone banking (for Obama), contributing, etc. for most of that time. I share a concern about election fraud that drove all my friends crazy, and lost me much of their respect until it became more obvious. We're on the same side as far as political stances go. I think it allows me to comment.

What I'm saying is that the tone is a major aspect of what you've written, and it actively discourages the people you obviously want to encourage, who you want to fight the good fight. I'm not saying it's badly written, quite the opposite, and your reply to me clears up that your motivation isn't along those lines in the general flow.

I found your piece personally very discouraging. You evidently didn't mean that, but I think that with such a piece you are discouraging far more people than you are motivating. If you just want to write a cri du coeur I have no objection (how could I object?) but to portray your despair as somehow more realistic than other people's views is the real hope-killer. I don't think you want to kill that hope, or to dampen motivation in a progressive direction. It sure seems like you don't, so what's the motivation for “publishing” this OP? What's published here has a public effect.