Important article: "The Unfinished Story of Election 2006" How would you tell it?

[chaska]

http://www.commondreams.org/views06/1113-27.htm

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This is a job for the peace movement, whose role has always been to articulate alternatives. Now is the time to offer a new narrative using an alternative recipe, the same one that the peace movement has always used: Take big dollops of truth and moral compassion in equal measure and stir.

But there's another ingredient as well, one that peace activists should borrow from Rove's recipe, despite its recent failure: To succeed, the "new" story must contain elements of an old, familiar morality tale about good against evil. It must offer reassurance that there is still some ethical clarity amid growing war-bred dissonance, and some permanence amid all the change. That means it should be built on time-honored, bedrock principles from the mainstream of American political discourse.

Here are a few that those who would like to begin telling a tale of a lost war might consider picking up:

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What's your story? What has America just done with this election?

I would suggest bookmarking the article for later.

[chaska]

1. My take:

On 9/11 the US *government* was attacked for the sins of the corporations. The people looked to their elected leader and supported him. But the leader was a puppet of an evil man (3 guesses who, hopefully you won't need 2 of them) and his evil friends (PNAC and the corporations). The evil man proceeded to loot the people's treasure. It became increasingly obvious that the evil men were indeed evil and were only interested in treasure so the people defeated them and will now begin to punish them.

Am I close?

[chaska]

2. Well, that sunk like a stone, dinit?

[Gwerlain]

3. Don't lose heart...

at least one person is still reading the article, and will require some time to digest it.

[chaska]

4. Thanks. To all others, you may want to skip to near the bottom of the article...

for the gist of what's going on.