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The Demcorats have two years to convince the voting public that they are going to make a positive difference in this country AND two years to castrate the sneaky machinations we've experienced with media manipulation and GOP election fraud. Two years, and then forces can start swinging the pendulum back to the right, just like it is now swinging to the left.
The time was ripe for the Dems to win in 2006. Even the most conservative Evangelicals knew it. I spoke to the husband of an evangelical a year ago and he predicted this landslide for the Democrats would happen. He said, you just wait and in the next election, no one is going to vote for a Republican. It's a cycle.
I don't know what is behind this, but in speaking to the right-wing end of the family, I get the distinct feeling that this is just a calculated game to them. The Democrats clean up the messes in this country and play the unhappy role of being the bad cop, and when there's money in the treasury, suddenly it swings the other way. That's when the Republicans come in and they honestly believe it's their right to raid the country's savings. They don't care about the millions of retiring individuals who lose their pensions or retirement savings. They don't even care that the federal government doesn't have money for college grants. (They're convince that all the money is going to minorities, anyway.)
The point is, that they believe that you have to spend money to make money. Anybody's money, EVERYBODY's money. That's why they want to privatize social security. They're trying to force you to play their game. Ante-up to a poker game where some of the players have Aces up their sleeves. And here's the sick thing, the really stupid ones really believe it works and that the upper class numbers will increase considerably. However, the really clever ones know that the only ones who actually make money during this chaotic Republican period, are the well-connected. The ones who can get the inside information on the markets that are the most vulnerable to deregulation.
You know why I think we won in 2006? Because the United States is near bankrupt and the profiteers can't suck water out of a dry well. That's why the media did uncharacteristic things to make sure this election was as fair as possible. For example, in the week before the election, something screwy happened to Jack Cafferty's mike before he went into a tirade against Kerry and his botched joke. Who noticed that? Cafferty was about to announce that the Democrats lost the election because of Kerry's statement. I've liked Cafferty's diatribes in the last few months, but what a ludicrous prediction -- however, if it had happened in 2004, it would have worked because it doesn't take much to get the swiftboaters started. Yet, by some divine intervention, Cafferty's mike malfunctioned and, thus, a stampede was prevented before it started. Enough with the metaphors.
The point is, be on your toes, pick your fights, be righteous in your choices, be good to your base and fair to your opponents, but be prepared for the media to change public opinion in two years, no matter what you do. Because there is a cycle or swing of the pendulum that people are expecting, no matter what you do. And the other side will do everything they can to make it swing back to the right as soon as possible.
You all have two years.
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