mid-week rant [View All]

[T Wolf]

Another election day has passed and it's getting harder to maintain any degree of a positive outlook.

Two southern statehouses turn repuke. Is there really any hope of winning any state in Dixie in 2004?

The only positive I could find was the Philly mayoral election. And the main boost from that is listening to the apoplexy of the right-wing radio hosts. They tried so hard and failed so badly. There will be riots in the streets (no pun) according to them. But they will take this one victory and relentlessly use it to rally their troops, so the net result will wind up being negative.

Now comes that intelligence memo crap. Repukes and hate radio are calling for investigations because it looks like someone is politicizing foreign policy. Gee. That has never happened before. And the worst part is that they will be more successful in pursuing their prosecution of this than we have been in getting people to pay attention to the outright lies of the regime or BBV or even the death of American military personnel in the ME. They will succeed in distracting America. Again.

CBS, arguably the least-worst of the networks, has caved to the revisionist right and the truth about Raygun will remain hidden.

So, what can be done? What CAN we do to fight back?

We cannot fight them by relying on rational, fact-based argument because people just do not want to be bothered by the details of the truth.

We cannot fight back by getting down 'n dirty because they are much too much better at that than we are.

We cannot withdraw and just try to live our lives as best we can because the destruction of democracy and the rape of the environment and the murder of freedom will leave us with nothing.

We cannot simply hunker down and wait for this dark age to blow over because it will not go away on its own.

Frankly, I do not see any good options. Does anyone?