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Edited on Sat Nov-06-04 01:39 PM by bemildred
This thread is for those who are unhappy with the election and don't know what to do. Do you feel marginalized, your opinions ignored? Have a family to raise, not up for violent street demonstrations, or for any violence at all? Violence is the problem, isn't it, and fear?
Well, here are some ideas, safe, honest, non-confrontational, and guaranteed to be effective if any substantial portion of the liberal majority do them:
1.) Register Republican and vote against ALL incumbents in the primaries.
2.) Discontinue your cable TV, put the TV in the garage or the closet, face to the wall, cancel your newspaper. Use the proceeds to buy the best internet connection you can manage, and to obtain books, magazines, and other media that provide fear-free and useful entertainment, news, and information. You will not only save money, but be smarter and need less medication to sedate you.
3.) If in good health and able to, cancel your medical coverage. Pay as you go. Good food, low stress, and exercise are better than any medicine many times, and there are plenty of doctors that like cash these days. Go for walks, ride a bike, get out, every day. If you feel the need, get catastrophic coverage to help out when you have to visit the emergency room, if you still have one in your neighborhood.
4.) Stop spending money on plastic crap. Keep it, you might need it. Put it in foreign denominated assets if you can. Entertainment can be free, it can be cheap, you don't have to pay for it, it doesn't come in the form of little pieces of plastic crap.
5.) Stop eating fast food. None. Buy good stuff at the store instead, and learn to cook it yourself. Cooking is fun.
6.) In real elections, whenever you can, vote for third parties. Does it really matter who wins when it's a choice between primitive and simian? Vote your opinions unless it REALLY matters. Vote against incumbents, all incumbents, unless they openly espouse liberal social policies. We don't need more self-centered weasels in government.
7.) Get rid of as many cars as you can. Stop driving when you can avoid it. You will save lots of time and money, money that is used politically against your interests, and your life will be simplified, and safer.
8.) Let your lawn die. When asked, claim indigence. "I just can't afford to pay for the water and fertilizer and bug spray since I lost my second job."
9.) Join Democracy For America. Give them a little money every month. Maybe some of the fast-food money you now have in your pocket. DFA is working for long-term change, and we have seen the power of the grass roots and the internet.
10.) Cut you hair and try to look straight. Become hard to identify. When polled about political issues, always respond with "no opinion" or the like. Don't give them any clues. If they get fat, dumb, and happy they may allow honest elections again, and then we can clobber them. In any case, the polls are being used against you, so there is no reason not to screw them up. Lie. Be creative.
11.) Patronize only local businesses. No chains, no big corporations, as much as possible. A strong local economy with well-off local businessmen - who won't sell out - protects you and provides jobs for you, jobs that won't go away. (Well, at least it improves the odds.)
12.) Support BBV. Help them raise hell. Enjoy the show. What's wrong with wanting all the votes counted. It's an unanswerable argument.
Well, I could go on, but I won't.
Edit: well, editing.
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