Check in here: If you've ever been DINO, R-Lite, scorned The Left, voted Repug or not voted at all

[omega minimo]

You are the reason we are in this mess, that things have gotten this bad, your inattention and inaction and ennui have Let It Happen On Purpose. Please step up and bend over:

:spank: :spank: :cry: :spank: :spank: :hide: :spank: :spank: :scared: :spank: :spank: :crazy: :spank: :spank: :cry:

What did we want you to DO? Never mind that. Too late now. People never learn from history and repeat the same mistakes.

NOW, on to SURVIVAL. The way the Right Wing Reaganbots hooked you in was with the "Greed Is Good" "Conspicuous Consumption" crap, while systematically dismantling the social safety net. OOOoooOOOOooohhhhh, NOW you care. Now that it affects YOU.

Okay. It's not just about you, anymore. SNAP OUT OF IT!! Time to hitch up your bootstraps and act like a REAL AMERICAN who has had their 30 year nap and their wake up spanking and is ready to

RECLAIM THE COMMONWEALTH.

Okay, now open the window and LET'S HEAR IT!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=90ELleCQvew


I don’t have to tell you things are bad. Everybody knows things are bad. It’s a depression. Everybody’s out of work or scared of losing their job. The dollar buys a nickel’s work, banks are going bust, shopkeepers keep a gun under the counter. Punks are running wild in the street and there’s nobody anywhere who seems to know what to do, and there’s no end to it.

We know the air is unfit to breathe and our food is unfit to eat, and we sit watching our TV’s while some local newscaster tells us that today we had fifteen homicides and sixty-three violent crimes, as if that’s the way it’s supposed to be. We know things are bad – worse than bad. They’re crazy. It’s like everything everywhere is going crazy, so we don’t go out anymore.

We sit in the house, and slowly the world we are living in is getting smaller, and all we say is, “Please, at least leave us alone in our living rooms. Let me have my toaster and my TV and my steel-belted radials and I won’t say anything. Just leave us alone.”

Well, I’m not gonna leave you alone. I want you to get mad! I don’t want you to protest. I don’t want you to riot – I don’t want you to write to your congressman because I wouldn’t know what to tell you to write. I don’t know what to do about the depression and the inflation and the Russians and the crime in the street. All I know is that first you’ve got to get mad.

You’ve got to say, “I’m a human being, God damn it! My life has value!”

So I want you to get up now. I want all of you to get up out of your chairs. I want you to get up right now and go to the window. Open it, and stick your head out, and yell, “I’M AS MAD AS HELL, AND I’M NOT GOING TO TAKE THIS ANYMORE!”

I want you to get up right now, sit up, go to your windows, open them and stick your head out and yell – “I’m as mad as hell and I’m not going to take this anymore!”

Things have got to change. But first, you’ve gotta get mad!… You’ve got to say, “I’m as mad as hell, and I’m not going to take this anymore!”

Then we’ll figure out what to do about the depression and the inflation and the oil crisis. But first get up out of your chairs, open the window, stick your head out, and yell, and say it:

“I’M AS MAD AS HELL, AND I’M NOT GOING TO TAKE THIS ANYMORE!”

Just about everything you need to know can be found here:

http://www.thomhartmann.com
http://www.mikemalloy.com
http://www.truthout.org

[Ken Burch]

1. One for the subtitles, or, as Howard Beale would say:

"I' ; m fou comme enfer, et I' ; m n'allant pas le prendre plus !"

[omega minimo]

2. LOL

C'est bon. Merci beaucoup :toast:

[Jackpine Radical]

5. Qu'est-ce qu' c'est?

Je suis fou car l'enfer et moi ne vais le prendre plus.

[Jackpine Radical]

3. OK, I voted Republican once.

But it was in an election for sheriff, and it was in a local primary in a county where a semi-asshole was running against a genuinely corrupt sunnuvabitch of an asshole, both on the Republican ticket, and whoever won the primary was sure to win the general election. And it was in 1966.

Since then I have voted full-slate Democratic in every election (Except for 1968, which I sat out because I was in the Army at the time & it was almost impossible to get absentee ballots, & I just wasn't excited enough about Hubert to jump all the hoops you needed to to get the absentee ballot). But ever since 1970, it's been solid Democratic.

It'll be that way in 2010 too, for Feingold & Obey, plus all the state & local Dems.

ObamaRahm-a may change that in 2012, though. Things are starting to look kinda green.

[omega minimo]

4. Can you get Feingold to run for President?

Liked your story, Thanks :patriot:

[Jackpine Radical]

8. I still have some "Feingold 2008" bumper stickers from the last time

the cheeseheads tried to get that one moving. Sadly, I don't think he'd run, and he probably wouldn't make it if he did. We'll re-elect him to the Senate next year for you, though.

[omega minimo]

9. Thank you. He is a light in the darkness.

[Jackpine Radical]

13. Along with Grayson, Sanders, a few others.

Franken is smart as hell and so far has talked a good liberal line, but I'm waiting to see. In the old days he was a little far right for me.

[pipi_k]

14. I did too, last November...

State office. If the Democratic candidate hadn't had a (D) next to his name I would have sworn he was a Republican. He was just NAS-ty.

So I voted for the Republican, who sounded more like a Democrat than the Democrat did.

Oh, and the Republican won (in Mass, a "blue" state). Seems other people were on to the "Democrat" as well.


So anyway, I vote (D) all the time. Unless, of course, the (D) is an asshole.

[StarfarerBill]

17. Me, too: in 1984 at age 20.

I was an abysmally-ignorant so-and-so then.

Democratic or Green since then.

[omega minimo]

18. LOL

:yourock:

[StarfarerBill]

20. lol. Nah; I've just made up for my stupidity since then.

Thanks, though. :)

[omega minimo]

22. "an abysmally-ignorant so-and-so"

with a way with words :hi:

[StarfarerBill]

28. Hey! I'm a bit less ignorant now...

and have developed a more deft way with words since. ;)

[virgogal]

6. I voted Repub. 3 times many years ago here in MA----and they all won.

[omega minimo]

7. Ready?

:spank:
:spank:
:spank:

[virgogal]

11. Ready for what?

[pipi_k]

16. Yeah, ready for what?

Might as well lay one on me too while you're at it.

I, for one, refuse to vote for someone who is a DINO.


Someone who automatically votes the Party line without knowing (or caring?) about the candidate's platform is probably as misguided as someone who doesn't vote at all.

[dmallind]

10. I suspect more people here voted Green than Rep - and they are far more to blame. NT

[omega minimo]

15. Wrong. How do you figure that?

[dmallind]

31. Simple. Republicans - modern ones - are either ideologues or idiots BUT

They are however seeking to produce a desired and possible effect. They want, for whatever wacky reason they have, a government that abides by Republican goals and priorities. They have a chance to get that govenment and they try to make that happen every two years.

Greens and Socialists etc know that they cannot get a government they want, and they know that whatever tiny proportion they pull will actually more than not lead to them getting a worse government than the alternative. They are willing to trade Gore for Bush to feel all warm and pure. Imagine that - people to whom the environment is a priority traded Gore for Bush so they could feel good about their own inability to compromise.

The trouble with that viewpoint is they seem unwilling to focus on lower level races where grass roots supoprt could build momentum and make them a real force in politics. While I don't agree with a lot of tehir goals, and certainly not priorities, I waould sincerely welcome and applaud their involvement in a non-spoiuler political role. If Nader had put his celebrity and fundraising power into supporting a swathe of Green candidates for State Reps and Senators, or even local councillors and mayors, he could have done much more to both build the party and actually achieve his goals (stated goals at least) than a vanity campaign for the highest office in the land.

The equivalent to Greens and Socialists on the right is not Republicans, but the Constitution and related parties. They see Republicans as insufficiently xenophobic and Dominionist, and are willing to trade a greater chance of a Democratic government for the sake of their purity. They are far more to blame in FR terms than Democrats are, as Democrats also have a chance of national level victory.

[GreenPartyVoter]

19. Oh, absolutely. Nothing worse for democracy than voting your conscience.

[omega minimo]

25. what if EVERYONE did that?

:wow: :hi:

[tnlefty]

12. I did once a few years ago, but the man was left leaning

and in a county commission race with my HARD right dumbass county commissiioner. I was trying to improve the status quo, really I was.

By the time the election rolled around he was listed as an indie on the ballot.

[Jamastiene]

21. I like spankings and I’M AS MAD AS HELL, AND I’M NOT GOING TO TAKE THIS ANYMORE!

:evilgrin:

[omega minimo]

23. Faye Dunaway is Irritating. No Fascinating. No Irritating. Fascinating. IRRITATING.

[MilesColtrane]

24. I've never voted for a Republican, and never will, but...

I have voted for a few Libertarian Judges when there was no Democrat on the ballot.

Fortunately I was too young to vote in the 1980 presidential campaign. I say fortunately, because I probably would have cast my ballot for John Anderson, a moronic vote in retrospect.

[boppers]

26. The Russians...?

Is this meant as a weird meta-commentary about the shouting and foot-stomping politics of the teabaggers on the right and left?

[Th1onein]

27. I've voted Dem all of my life. Mostly straight ticket Dem.

But I've missed a few elections, here and there. I travel too much and it happens....

[cali]

29. I've voted republican: only for Jim Jeffords

and I will never regret it.

[Ohio Joe]

30. I voted for ronny raygun's first term

It was my first time voting, I have since paid attention to what is going on a bit more and not voted repug since.

[madinmaryland]

32. Does voting for Lowell Weicker (R) in 1988 against Joe Lieberman (D?) count.

I voted for LIEberman in 2000 over Phil Giordano (r-pedophile).

:shrug:

Those are the only two R's I have voted for.