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I have noticed many a thing on the pages of DU over the years, and I believe that we have hashed over just about everything there is to hash out. After all, that's what DU is all about.
There comes a time however, when we need to start to work toward a common goal, getting bush in a position where he can do the nation no more harm. It should be agreed that is really what the goal is; the question is, how can we do this at our individual levels?
I've seen many a good idea come across this screen, and I think it is time to get the whole thing down into a situation where we can understand what we really have to do.
First things first, the 2006 election. This election is important in many ways, and might well be the turning point we've been looking for. Forget the bush impeachment stuff, it ain't gonna happen...unless we get a solid Democratic House. Even then, impeachment is not taken lightly, (except in the case of neo-cons headhunting a president for a personal foible). What we should be doing, and I have been doing this for several years now, is ensuring that people will get out to vote. I carry a slew of voter registration cards with me, and am always willing to give one to prospective new voter. In fact, those cards have gotten 23 new Independents from the R ranks, and 3 Dem's have come over from the R's. Not bad really, considering that these people all changed from Republican here in the state of Nebraska. It takes work, but it pays off. I have gotten 146 new voter registrations in my area. I did not ask if the would register D,R or I. That is their business, but they registered after a talk from ne in how this is no longer the Republican Party of Eisenhower, it is a party that has been hijacked by a vociferous minority that has given us record deficits, a war we need not be in, and some of the most scandal ridden Congresscritters this nation has ever known.
Next, we can discuss this stuff forever here on DU, but if you take the time to talk to prospective voters, you can make headway. I believe everyone here on DU will vote against the neo-cons, why should I spend all of my energy here? 2006 is a chance to change both Houses of Congress, and stop bush and his cronies in their tracks. We need to ensure that this president has no power to ensnare the nation in more of his misguided ideology; we can gripe about it here on DU...but we have to make an impact in our local areas, that is where the difference will make an impact.
We need to stop all of the griping and harping. It is fine to bring up points and haggle over them, that is what politics is all about. But we can't dwell on 2000 and 2004. Two years ago, bush returned to office because we bickered like children rather that show a solidified party ready to take on the issues, not just here on DU, but Party-wide. I believe that Ohio was stolen, but other than be pissed off about it and squawk and do nothing, I work to ensure that that the electronic voting devices have a paper trail, so that Ohio doesn't happen again. Every one of us should be working toward an accountable election. We have the power, but we waste it when we sit here and make statements without action.
Third, Fourth, Fifth parties are not going to get bush into the position where he can sit out the presidency in semi-retirement. I am honest about this, I see no reason to come to DU and state that one will vote Green, Communist, Peoples Party or anything else. I do not hold it against anyone on how they wish to cast their ballot, but to come here and attempt to degrade others for the way they will vote is really kind of over the top. Regardless of our individual voting patterns, we need to be solidly behind candidates that will take the power away from bush. At this point, and for the foreseeable future the Democratic Party is the only party that can do this. I don't agree with everything that the D candidates say, and certainly not how they vote in Congress, when it is in support of anything bush puts forward, but I want to see D's commanding Congress again; until we have that, no progress will be made.
So, in essence, it is time to start working on 2006. Forget 2008, if we don't do well in '06,'08 will be a moot issue. The platform will not be created until the '06 elections are in, and if we keep arguing about what flavor bagel to bring to the table, we will never get anywhere.
I ask you to all get moving in ensuring that people will get out and vote Democratic. If you feel you have to make a statement by voting Green, or whatever, please, find a site that is more accepting to that train of thought. We need to come together, bury our petty differences and work together to save the nation we live in. This nation is in peril under the current administration, this is a very serious matter and if we do not solidify, we shall fall the way of the Whigs, Bull Moose and other party's that have found their way into the dustbin of history.
Thank you all for reading this, and I wish to express that these are my views only, and this is not posted under any mantle of Moderator status or of DU policies in general. I just want us to get out of this nightmare, and get the country back into the hands of the People.
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