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You're angry because Democrats have joined Republicans in passing bills that are clearly anti-lib, anti-people, pro-fascist and pro-wealth for the richest of all. I agree. I'm angry too. You want to throw the Dems away. Like an actor in an action movie, you just look at the instances in which the Dems and the Repukes have behaved in anti-people ways, and you want to destroy them both. However, you don't bother to examine what got everything to that state.
Decades ago the Republican Party put together a pretty well-designed plan to take over this country. It's not my imagination. It was a multi-pronged plan involving everything from sophisticated marketing ploys, such as making evangelicals feel important for the first time in their lives by making anti-abortion and anti-evolution ideas Republican "issues," to creating false ideas such as that Jimmy Carter was "weak" when he was not, to funding tens of thousands of right wing website owners on the Internet and training right wing radio hosts, and getting every possible right winger to run for every kind of office, from local library associations in tiny towns, all the way up to president, no office was too small or too large. The propaganda machine was massive.
What were we libs doing while this was going on? Nothing. Did we defend our Dems in office? Hell no. In fact, when that asshole Reagan ran for office, many of us thought he was an a-okay guy. Pretty soon it became embarrassing for Dems to admit they were Dems. And of course, the more ignorant in the population, they thought it was all okay because those of us who knew better were SILENT and doing nothing.
Then some of us started whining. We'd done nothing for years, but we wanted politicians (who by now were facing an ever more brainwashed population) to make things better, to put things right, to fix what we had broken by doing absolutely nothing.
Well you know what? Throwing out the baby with the bathwater is just retarded. If we're going to change things, we have to be vocal, not stupid. We have to know our history, how we let things get out of control, how we let the fascist take over and did nothing, and of course how we're going to change things back and teach the least instructed among us, what is truth and what is lie.
You know, even if Nader had not been and would not be accepting money from the GOP (which he was and is), he's still in my eyes an as much my enemy as a Republican is because he frankly doesn't give a shit how it all got to this point. He just wants to destroy everyone and get his satisfaction that way.
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