Unity

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We've been lucky, people. Really lucky. If GWB hadn't stolen the election in 2000, none of us would have met each other, and grown to care about each other. DU has given us a total sense of unity that will never fade, long after we've finally gotten our country back on terra firma.

We've had a completely devastating setback--they've stolen the election once again, and we know it. Too bad the other "half" of the country doesn't understand, and many of them never will. I've gotten a bit thin-skinned the past week, because some of the pukes I know online have been shoving this in my face, as well as in the face of others. It's been enough to know we lost because they cheated, once again.

But let's face it--we can't mope for the next 48 months. We need to take one day, one week, one month at a time, and start laying out the plan for the future. I was thinking about this the other day as well. Four years, to me, is a long time. We've already been through the worst 4 years of our lives, but we've managed to do more in that time than many of us could ever hope to do in our lifetimes. We've influenced people. We've gotten unlikely allies to be on one side, and we've managed to show the world that only one half this country is filled with ignorant morons. ;)

It's just something we need to finish--the task of bringing the truth to the people of this country and of the world. It's not something we should think of as a fait accompli, because it isn't. Fighting ignorance and intolerance is a lifetime mission. And while we can't all keep to that purpose, we've joined that cause simply by caring about our country with a passion most of us never truly had before the election in 2000.

We all wandered in different directions four years ago, until we were set on this course together. We've laughed, we've cried, we've shared the same rages, the same losses, the same tears and pain. At the same time, we've become a community that is unparalleled anywhere else in the world. We've cared about each other's daily world, shared stories, shared things we might never have even shared with our best friends.

We've committed ourselves to this project, some more reluctantly than others. Many hoped that it would be over by now, and all of us could anticipate an invitation to the inauguration in January, 2005. It's sad to know it isn't going to happen that way, but once again, we're still sharing--this time, an even greater determination to fight the evil that faces ourselves and our country.

I've cried a lot this past week, and I know a lot of others have as well. There is still a deep sense of loss, pain and numbness. We've sustained a direct hit, but it seems most of us were wearing a bulletproof vest--we've gotten a little knocked out, but we're definitely not dead yet. We've got a future to save, and if it takes 4 more years, so be it. We're soldiers in every sense of the word, despite not being on the foreign front lines. We've got our own front line to face, and we're going to need to defend it against all enemies. Even if, it turns out that they're just the neighbors next door.

Besides.....look at the bright side--most of the nicks here are good for another four years. :)

[knowbody0]

1. comrades for truth and justice

now is the time for good judgement and good choices.

[Bluzmann57]

2. Ok point by point

If gwb hadn't stolen our country we indeed wouldn't have met, but I still wish Democracy had won, like we were all taught when we were small children. I too have become a bit thin skinned, but I have decided to channel it. And you are correct by saying most of us didn't have the passion in the past we displayed this year . Well, dammit, you're right, we have to continue to fight this madness if we want our country back. We need to continuosly bring our message to the people so eventually the media will have to listen to us. As you said, Unity.