writing in the raw: destroying republicans. hahahahaha

buhdy wants to know…  what should we do to fight evil?

harsh and simple: stop partnering with it.

i am angry today. Bush has the balls to say torture is okay::: we are outraged. And, hey btw… we should destroy the Republican Party.

Well. Maybe the republicans are not the only problem here. Because i’ve known, pretty much from Ronald Reagan, what the agenda was. Didn’t you? Sure, they lied to get it done, but they’ve been pretty fucking up front about what they wanted to do. Today being no exception.

What’s even funnier is that somehow, we want to destroy them for being able to sell their message. We want to destroy them because they played the game better and kept Democrats from standing up to them. Hahahahaha. Does anybody else think this is side-splittingly funny?

So some links, just to drive the point home… from neocons blathering about Iraq to Ralph Reed, with some work place safety issues just to keep it homey.

http://www.informationclearing…

http://www.washington-report.o…

http://www.seekgod.ca/cnp.r.htm

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/…

Let us not forget that the Democrats did not pursue impeachment of Richard Nixon or trials for any of the high-placed operatives after Watergate. And then, the Dems let them get away with it again. That’s right…  President Clinton didn’t find any ethical imperative to give us accountability for Iran-Contra.

As a matter of fact, how many people look back at Watergate and dismiss it as just a burglary. Yeah. And Iran-Contra? So we sold some arms for hostages. Yeah again.

Let me put it this way. I have no problem with the Republicans. My problem, dear reader, is with the Democrats.

They’re afraid to look weak… isn’t that conventional wisdom? Afraid to look weak and further, partnering with the devil that weakens them. Or at least the devil some of us has defined to be the Republican Party.

And that devil somehow gets them to side-step their principles. And vote for things they say they don’t even believe. The devil gets them to let two theocrats on the Supreme Court. Now you have to admit, that’s funny. Look at Turkana’s Front Page tonight: Bush: 170,000,000,000 more for the war; Cuts to housing, education, health care, environment… What would have happened if the Democrats had fought Bush tooth and nail five years ago? Instead of being afraid. And relatively SILENT?  

I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments by those in power… than by violent and sudden usurpations.

James Madison

I don’t think evil can be destroyed. In the larger sense. It can be neutralized. It can be exposed. People can make a choice to stand up to evil, fight it, and not back down to it. But it never goes away.

So there must be, in my mind, some other way. To step away from it. To stop seeing my involvement with evil as inevitable. To play a different game. To choose a different side. To act in what I consider to be an honorable way.

You know what I’ve realized? I never really wanted anything to change. I wanted to go to the beach every year. And drive my car whenever I wanted. I didn’t want to worry about leaving lights on and certainly, I didn’t want to worry about what was in my food. No. I didn’t want change. I wanted to be left alone to live my American life.

Well, I’m awake now. And watch out. Because I’m not buying it anymore. Not from Harry Reid, Bill Clinton, or Barack Obama. I’m not looking for inspiration or sweeping speeches. I still don’t want change. I want restoration. I want the truth. Stop fucking patronizing me.

What I am willing to do today is radically different from what I ever even thought about 8 years. Because 8 years ago, it was dinner time conversation. Rousing ideas at cocktail parties. But these past seven years, it’s been knocking on doors, working with Sierra Club, fighting Wal-Mart…

Yeah. I thought I was hip. I had it down cold. I was one of the good guys, pulling the lever for Democrats. I had no fucking idea. Until George W. Bush and the Republicans, bless their souls, woke me up.

Yeah. We’re sorry and we’re afraid of dying in an avalanche of water, virulent viruses, flesh eating bacteria… We’re sorry because the desert encroaches on us, wild fires burn, and tornadoes twist peoples lives inside out. We’re scared.

So tell me. How is destroying the Republicans gonna reverse this stuff? When the alternative, Democrats, will assuage us but have shown no guts since Watergate.

I don’t want to destroy the Democrats either. I want us to stop counting on them. In the end, wanting our American life, I think we all have a responsibility for this mess in which we find ourselves.

I’m thinking the sea change is happening every time another person realizes we’re gonna have to solve our problems and find ways to force politicians to comply with our priorities. And we’re getting there (bless Magnifico’s Catching the Bus Is Catching On in Four @ Four). We’re the ones who’ll be inserting ourselves in this process is a BIG way. We’ll start asking better questions and be willing to act outside of the Democratic and Republican machines. Start our own party. Find a slate of candidates to send to Congress in 2010. It’s time has come.

No, I don’t think we need to destroy Republicans. We need to move on from Democrats.