Who out there feels that Republicans are becoming terrorists?

[gordianot]

They want to disenfranchise Democrats (look at this election), have made many implied threats. Bush did not reach out to us in his Press Conference and I viewed this as a veiled threat.

Terrorism is a real issue, I am starting to think the Republicans are the terrorists. Wonder when the be-headings start?

[billyoc]

1. "Vote for us, or you're all going to die."

Becoming?! :grr:

[NYC Liberal]

2. Definition of a terrorist:

http://www.cogsci.princeton.edu/cgi-bin/webwn?stage=1&word=terrorist

"a radical who employs terror as a political weapon; usually organizes with other terrorists in small cells; often uses religion as a cover for terrorist activities"

Yep, that pretty much sums up Republicans.

[mermaid]

3. ME!!!

I'm more afraid of the Republicans, as a transgendered person...than I am of ANY "terriorist." The Republicans actively pursue an agenda inimical to my self-interest, express nothing but hatred and contempt for me and people like me, and seek to harm me with legislation every chance they get!

Me, I'm wondering when the concentration camps open. I don't put it past these people.

[gordianot]

7. I would be a candidate for the camps due my utter disdain of these people.

You are safe in numbers they could never build enough camps.

[mermaid]

9. Couldn't They?

Consider that Hitler killed six million.
We have a population of roughly 240 million. If the numbers are right, that 10 percent is GLBT...then we have 24 million GLBT Americans.

You really think that this country, the wealthiest and most powerful in the history of the world...couldn't do 4 times worse than Hitler?

Why not? Stalin managed it, on far less money, too.

[gordianot]

14. Coming to my door to pick me up would be a bad mistake.

I will not tolerate with my life, the situation you describe. They can kill me in the street. Some one will have to haul my dead carcass away and will probably get a hernia in the process.

[signmike]

18. So, they call me Concentration Camp Erhart...

Do very many people know just how many interment camps the U.S. had during WW2? I was aware of the one at Santa Anita racetrack, because one of my schoolmates was born there, and the big one up on highway 395 -- I knew there was one in Arizona -- but I was amazed when I found out that there were actually 666 of them scattered throughout the U.S.!
Significant number, eh? Betcha there's very little trace of them around anymore.

How many did the Nazis have?

[gordianot]

22. True enough

When there were Nazis escaping down the Missouri River during WWII my Grandfather used to pick them up. A couple years ago I saw a documentary on German POWS in America. They were better fed than our own people!

When DU gets shut down is when I head for the hill country.

[mikehiggins]

10. Maybe not in the 1940's, though the Nazis did a pretty thorough

job of it. How many Jews in Europe pre-Nazi? How many afterwards?

Anyway, BushCo would give Halliburton no-bid contracts and they would outsource the job to overseas companies.

Whatever BushCo wants, BushCo gets.

[Tandalayo_Scheisskopf]

4. They are flush with victory.

They feel they have attained the prize they have worked for, for so long. Perhaps they have. That said, there is a hoary old saying that goes "Be careful what you wish for, it might come true".

There is a whole world of unintended effects and random occurences out there, waiting for them. They think they can hold these things back.

No one ever has. So much for the lessons of history.

[in_cog_ni_to]

5. Becoming? They ARE the terrorists.

Not just "repukes", but the religious right.

[tilsammans]

6. If Dems accept a stolen election, . . .

. . . without challenging it, then the (Rethug) terrorists have won.

[mermaid]

8. Oh, No...He Reached Out To Us...

Resident Bush: I will work with Republicans and Democrats who share my conservative agenda - from his most recent radio address.

TRANSLATION: I will work with Democrats who stop BEING Democrats...who abandon everything they stand for, and who will give me everything I want.

Note that later Bush even SAID he "would define bipartisanship on HIS terms." This is "reaching out??"

Well, Mr. Resident, why don't you reach out....and touch someone else?? I don't want your brand of "reaching out" thank you very much!!

I feel completely unrepresented now, by my own government. there is no one left in my government with enough power to look out for my interests, and to stop those with agendas inimical to MY self-interest from implementing that very agenda.

The only question is...just how far are they going to carry it? anyone who thinks they are going to stop with gay marriage and abortion is in for one hell of a rude awakening!

They will come for YOU, too...unless you stand up to them NOW and say NO!!!

[zoeb]

12. Only if they agree with his visions

I feel a filibuster coming on! What a moron!

[mikehiggins]

15. Well, like I keep saying, and nobody listens

We've come to the end of the road with the Democratic Party as it now exists. What we need is a new party, with a narrow and clearly defined focus on issues, and with people willing to challenge the incumbents (GOPuke or Dem) across the board.

To me, the three most digestible platform planks would be Fiscal Discipline (want a war? no tax cuts), Environmental Sanity (more and stricter enforced standards to protect PEOPLE, not industry) and Common-Sense Protectionism (no tax breaks for outsourcers--we can't be the world's foremost economy if we have no economy). The rest of the agenda has to be put aside for the time being until this current rush towards fascism is halted, or even reversed.

In order to wield power, I think the Bolsheviks proved, you must first have power.

Right now we are powerless. The Dems aren't going to prevail in the current Congress and you can expect a full press offensive against them in 2006. Most will fall and most people will see the current Dem party as empty and impotent.

Why wait for the crowd? Get started now, while you are still free to do so.

[gordianot]

17. I am listening and I agree.

My proposal for those of us in the Red States is to divorce our Senator and Representative on a State and Federal level. If you are in a Red State or are unhappy with you representation let me know. I am serious about this.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=104&topic_id=2620148&mesg_id=2620148

[mermaid]

23. Well, I Have No Intention

of "divorcing" my U.S. Representative to Congress, Lloyd Doggett. He won, and that's the only bright spot Tuesday had for me, being as I worked my ass off for Doggett.

On the other hand, I would LOVE to divorce both my senators, Kay Bailey Hutchison and John Cornyn. Can you tell me how I go about serving them with papers that I reject their representation, and request a formal divorce?

[Mist]

19. Absolutely

The Democratic party has compromised its way almost to extinction.Your three planks are quite reasonable. Meantime, let's start on the boycott of agricultural goods (and other goods) from red states, and the "no more red state welfare" (a longer more involved project, I'm thinking. Have to get state gov'ts on board w/that one). Fiscal discipline, environmental sanity, common-sense protectionism. That this might be thought of as revolutionary just shows we live in strange times indeed.

[AG78]

21. Here's how I see it

Current political structure

D R
E E
M P
O U
C B
R L
A I
T C
S A
N
S

We have million dollar leaders on each side. It's tough to have an actual opposition when both sides are owned by the same people.

Look at the difference between the top and bottom. It's tough for the top to see all the way down there.

My hopeful future political structure

CORPORATIONS

HUMANS

This way, we know who is on what side. We won't have to worry about what Democrats are voting with Bush, and how they could do that to us. If they're part of the Corporate Party, there is no question.

We need a horizontal outlook. That way, we can embrace the actual human beings on either side of the political divide. We no longer have to look up to our leaders, who are owned by the same corporations as the "other" side.

It's Humans vs Profits. One has to win, one has to lose. Since Corporations are, by law, human beings...it's "two men enter, one man leave".

[AG78]

11. Well

what else do you expect from a Theocratic Fascist takeover?

[Shoeempress]

13. I agree, it's gonna be a long 4 years. They are totally trying to

destroy the Dems, that's why they are so busy demonizing Lawyers, we donate and vote left.

[Old and In the Way]

16. The Bushbots love to call us "commie pinkos" but-

it's their side that's dragging this society towards a one party totalitarian state- a United Soviet States of America or People's Republic of the United States, if you will.

And just like their peers in the old Soviet Union-

* incompetence and blind alleigence is rewarded
* they celebrate blind, cult-like devotion to their Maximum Leader
* any contradictory facts to their message must be surpressed
* fear and continuous hyper-ventilating of non-existant external theats are required to keep the people corralled.
* enemies of the state must be identified and attacked/discredited.

These people can't handle democracy because it takes a society of critical thinkers to accept tolerance and value diversity to maintain it.

[LTRS]

20. Becoming? They already ARE terrorists

[markomalley]

24. becoming??? terrorists???????? n/t