New Democrat Outreach Program.

[lateo]

Sorry if this has been posted already.

http://forms.theregister.co.uk/mail_author/?story_url=/2004/11/07/blue_state_to_reds/

Comment: The defeated Kerry may have called for unity last week, but already radical elements inside and outside of the Democrat party are arguing for the abandonment of the old ways of cosy consensus. One such organisation, formed even as the last queues for the ballots ebbed away, styles itself "The New Democrat Outreach Program." The Register has been contacted by one NDOP activist, styling himself Commandante Camembert, with an early draft of the organisation's first communique to the nation. "We must," says Camembert, "learn to speak to all of the people. But we mustn't be afraid to sneer when we do it."

We think they've got that right already, although the "outreach" may need some work. Anway, here it is:

An open letter to the Red-State victors:

With hard work and superb organization, you have triumphed over John Kerry and the forces of Blue-state paternalism. Congratulations. The multinational corporations that hold you in bondage remain free to profit off your sweat nearly tax free, while their overpaid senior execs continue to pay a pittance in personal income tax.Your primary and secondary schools will continue to turn out third-rate pupils with limited opportunities, while you enjoy the satisfaction of making it on your own without health care when a catastrophic illness bankrupts your family.


Your agricultural universities will continue issuing Ph.D.s in football, and bogus Protestant Evangelical and Fundamentalist theology, and how to jerk off a bull safely. Your children will learn to borrow enough money to erect chicken houses so that they, like you, can take custody -- not possession, but custody -- of Tyson's chicks, feed them, rear them, assume losses from those that fail to thrive, and in the end earn just enough money to service their endless debt, and realize a profit of perhaps $12K a year. Your bank thanks you; Tyson thanks you; George W. Bush thanks you; and I thank you.

You can continue sending your sons to die in Iraq on a fool's errand. When you bury them, you can console yourselves with Bush's platitudes about their heroic mission to defend America from weapons of mass destruction.

You can savor the deficit spending that stimulates commerce today, but will cripple the US economy in ten or fifteen years' time when the bills come due with interest. Perhaps a Democrat will be in office at that time, who can be blamed for W's delayed economic fiasco.

You can continue believing, as Republican Party brainwashing has persuaded you, that we, your neighbors, are your enemies. You can believe that we have no morals; that we pimp out our teenage daughters for Internet porn; that we eat babies; that we are all gay; that we are cowards on the battlefield; and that we want to run your lives and give you AIDS.

Here's a clue: we are not your enemies; we are your countrymen. Your enemies are the greedy multinationals that the Republican Party bends over backwards to accommodate. Incidentally, most of them are based in Blue states, as are their Republican owners and major shareholders.

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Read the rest it is brilliant.

[PROGRESSIVE1]

1. haha

[Stephanie]

2. "the Democrat party" - please send them a 1000 emails about this

pisses me off

[lgardengate]

3. YEA! This will Really draw in red state voters!

NOT! If we continue to piss off those who voted for the GOP instead of attempting to attract them we (as a party) are Finished. JMHO

[lateo]

5. You don't get it.

The Redstaters are fucked without us. We need to turn this to our advantage instead of letting it be a weapon against us.

[deminflorida]

4. Although there is alot of truth there...I find that one of the most

disgusting fucking letters I have ever read in my life. It almost makes me want to succeed from the Democratic Party myself.

Assholes may have stolen the election, or assholes may have been able to manipulate polarizing social issues to squeeze out a victory. But this is supposed to be the party of inclusion not hate.

That's the type of letter I would expect to come out of the shameful halls of Freeper Land.

That insults me as a Southern Democrat as much as Bill Clinton did telling me to work on my morality image.