Fear No Evil - Democratic Underground

NanceGreggs

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Tue Sep-09-08 02:54 AM
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Fear No Evil

Edited on Tue Sep-09-08 03:32 AM by NanceGreggs

Right now, there are powers that be in the Republican Party who are living in fear. They are afraid of you, the American voter.

They fear that you have had enough of the lies, the deceit, the subterfuge that has marked the past eight years of the Bush administration. They fear that you are about to vote them out of office, out of the positions they have used to seize unlimited power and line their own pockets and that of their cronies.

They lose sleep these nights worrying about the fact that you have noticed the inequalities their policies have created in a nation founded on the concept that all men are created equal. They toss and turn, fretful that you have realized the American Dream is beyond the grasp of the American worker, while Big Business rakes-in the profits generated by your toil as your wages stay stagnant, go down, or disappear altogether while your job is shipped overseas.

They’re afraid that you have had a bellyful of promises that are never kept, empty rhetoric that rings more hollow with every telling, and the offer of inaccessible carrots held out on sticks that keep moving further away as you struggle to compete on a playing field they have rendered unequal.

They literally shake as they realize you are on to their schemes: the tax breaks for corporations that are making record profits at the same time they’re outsourcing your job; the tax-cuts for billionaires while you struggle to survive on a paycheck that buys less this week than it did last week, and will buy even less next week, and the week after that.

They scurry around like rats, afraid that their own fear-mongering is no longer keeping you in your place – a place where different religious beliefs, different lifestyles, different skin colors and ethnic backgrounds can be used as a wedge to divide you from your fellow citizens, your fellow world neighbors, your fellow believers in the concept that what is right, what is just, and what is fair should prevail over all other considerations.

They are paralyzed by the fear that you have finally awoken to the dawn’s early light with a renewed sense that this is your country, and you will take it back.

Most of all, they cower in fear because you have the power to end the injustices, the unabashed greed, the destruction of our democracy, the shredding of our Constitution – and are intent on holding those responsible for treason against our nation accountable for their crimes.

For eight years, the Republicans and their presidential puppet, George W. Bush, have played on your fears. They have blamed their failures on everyone but themselves, and are now telling you that if you are being crushed by the consequences of their actions, you are just a whiner with no cause for complaint.

Their reign of terror is over. The people who taught you to be afraid are now the ones who tremble at the thought of your power, your influence, your ability to bring them to their knees and banish them from the highest positions in our country – not temporarily, but for all time.

This November, vote Democratic – don’t do it for Obama, or for a political party; don’t do it out of a sense of frustration or anger, or out of a need to exact revenge for what has been done to our country. Do it for yourself, because you are what counts.

Now is the time for you to remember that it is your rights that matter, your children's future that is of paramount importance, and your dreams that deserve fulfillment - and it is your responsibility to vote accordingly.

Just do it. Don't fear the evil that has infiltrated our once-proud nation; remind the evil that it's their turn to fear you.