Nervous step from behind the curtain

[joop]

My bosses are fundie right wingers. I work on the internet and have had posts pulled because they were "too controversial" (OMG, I attended a gay wedding---ooooooh, nooooo, satan get thee from ye!). I'm bound and gagged there when I have to admin a board where a portion is political discourse and the posters are as fundie as you get. Well some time ago I began blogging to document a life change for me and I know there are quite a few readers. I haven't been feeling like blogging lately because honestly, all I care about is getting Obama elected. The more I read the more I want to do.

Today I scrubbed my blog--took out any and every mention of my place of employment. I also scrubbed links to it from the boards I have to admin so only those who have it bookmarked will be able to get to it. And today I made the first post in a month that mattered, that truly, truly mattered to me. The good of it is, I know several of my readers are def. pro-Obama and they don't have any courage in trying to post against the red hate in the politics forum. I'm hoping my standing up to be counted will help them find courage, too.

This is it-- and I swear if I lose my job I seriously don't care. My blog links in factcheck and obama's site and http://www.mccainpedia.org/index.php/Count_the_Lies and the I LIKEs were all big and bold and italicized but I'm not quite as savvy with HTML as I would hope. I just wanted to say how amazingly freeing it was to just say "I'M MAD AS HELL AND I'M NOT GOING TO TAKE IT" even if it was just on a little Blog.



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All Veganism aside for a moment,


I work on the internet and I'm not allowed by my place of employment to post anything remotely political at work. Meanwhile the board I occasionally admin has turned into a right-wing fundamentalist stumping ground and I'm fully sickened. Any time anything pro-Obama or remotely questioning towards McCain is posted they eviscerate the poster like so many carrion crows. I won't risk my employment by writing anything there that is partisan and I know these posters are not people who actually research before posting. They're tied up in the hate, spewing back "what they heard". You don't change haters with facts. They'll hate and hate until the election is done.

I decided I can't sit back anymore. I have removed all information about my place of work from these blogs and I've removed the link to my blog from my profile information on those boards and goddammit, I am going to get political, NOW.

I LIKE OBAMA!

I LIKE optimism and accountability. I LIKE that we have a man ready to become president and ensure alternative energy sources take top priority so we can get the monkeys of foreign oil dependency and environmental degradation off our backs once and for all, making millions of new family-sustaining jobs in these alternate energy arenas.

I LIKE the idea that people with no insurance will be able to buy into a national plan without regard to preexisting conditions while I can still enjoy my private insurance.

I LIKE that women are treated with respect and dignity, that they will be assured that their choice regarding what happens in their own bodies will be protected.

I LIKE that the man I choose to be president is highly educated, temperate and surrounds himself with equally intelligent advisors and a vice president I know could competently and confidently step up and follow through should a crisis make it necessary.

I LIKE the hope of change. This country is as fucked up as I have ever seen it. To believe in your heart that the only way to fix it is to send in someone who wholeheartedly supported the destruction thus far is just naive. To vote Republican because your daddy did and his daddy did and his daddy's daddy did is irresponsible.

Obama is for me. For us. For this country. We're getting a new shot and if we stand by idly and lose yet another election because we're afraid to be counted among the hopeful and those willing to work for change, shame on us. We are talking Renaissance here--the new New Deal.

If you don't know what Obama stands for, don't take anyone else's word for it. Go here and get ready to read. There is a lot. Educate yourself on the issues. I don't agree with everything Obama says by any stretch, but I do agree with a spirit of inclusion and working together with a government bound by unprecedented transparency and accountability.

And I disagree that politicians who repeat and repeat and repeat out and out lies at the podium while campaigning will be any more honest behind the closed doors of Washington, D.C. "I said thanks but no thanks" ring a bell? There's an entire partisan site dedicated to following M's lies but www.factcheck.org will show you distortions on both sides - no one is pure as the driven snow but count them and you'll see the whoppers are largely from the right.

If I lose my job for this, I lose my job. This country is too important to me to remain silent.

This is a first family I believe has my back. These are my people.






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In other baby steps out, last week I changed my outgoing message signature to include:

Obama '08 because you don't ask the iceberg to save the Titanic.
Confused about what you've heard about him? Check the facts: http://factcheck.barackobama.com/

I hope the baby steps add up and encourage others to speak out, too.

[ShortnFiery]

1. Thank you for such noble efforts.

Here I think that because I volunteer for phone banking and work the polls at the democratic table that I'm truly participating in democracy.

Your efforts are from the heart and I wish you the best in all your future LIBERAL (some say "progressive") endeavors. :thumbsup: :hi:

[FrenchieCat]

2. That's it. Tell 'em!

"If I lose my job for this, I lose my job. This country is too important to me to remain silent.

This is a first family I believe has my back. These are my people."

Saving the world is a hard job, but somebody's got to do it! :thumbsup:

[TomInTib]

3. Keep your lamp trimmed and burnin'. KnR

Good for you.

That took some real nerve. I really admire your forthrightness.

Tom

[knixphan]

4. K&R

[elmerdem]

5. K&R nt

[hootinholler]

6. I post on a similar board...

My sig reads All my heroes are LIBERALS

Every time someone compares McCain or Palin to one of my heroes, I let them have it.

The hate is so tiring, but I have had a few send me PMs telling me to keep at it.

-Hoot