Sunday, April 23, 2006

I feel like such a slacker

Between what Pesky, Autoegocrat, Jeff, CPL, and the notorious Kibitzer are doing at the Pesky Fly, and what David Holt is doing at West Tennessee Liberal, I feel like a SLUG.

The bloggers at the Fly cover local and national stuff with equal abandon, all terrific and on time. Think WTL hasn't had an effect on local politics? After he led the fight to have people call the Commission offices to DEMAND that Terry Roland NOT be appointed to the District 29 seat, it was apparently leaked on Mike Fleming's show on Friday that ROLAND HIMSELF will request that he not be appointed. How's that for power?

You see, that's the kind of activism that we have to have EVERY DAY. When the eventual nominee of your Party for the United States Senate is running his campaign by denying that he believes in the core beliefs of that Party, you have to fight with all your power to keep from giving up on that Party.

I believe, despite nearly 30 years of activism in the Democratic party here, despite seeing many of OUR OWN candidates for office downplay our core beliefs in social and economic justice because they were afraid to offend potential voters, in this phrase by the greatest president of the 20th Century, Franklin Delano Roosevelt: WE HAVE NOTHING TO FEAR BUT FEAR ITSELF.

The Bush Administration, and by proxy, the Republican Party, promotes and is devoted to spreading fear and disharmony. Frankly, if these people had been in charge during World War II, we'd all be speaking German right now, and no one would notice that an entire religion had disappeared. Oh well, they weren't "our kind of people" anyway, right?

We have two options, folks: fight with everything we have, or lose everything we believe in. Make no mistake about it, folks: the people who run the Republican party these days at the national level don't want to beat us. They want to ELIMINATE US if we don't convert to their way of thinking.

Kill us all? Maybe not. Marginalize us to the point where we give up? Definitely. Watched Fox News or listened to AM600 lately? We have far more to fear from these people than we do from ANY external enemy.

The Bush administration is preparing to launch a nuclear strike on Iran. If that happens, ladies and gentlemen, America is DEAD. The entire world will align against us, and we will be destroyed.

And it will be OUR FAULT for not stopping it. That's why we have to stop them, and stop them NOW. THIS YEAR.

Karl Rove has suffered a "demotion" at the White House. My ass.

He is preparing for the last desperate stand of the Bush Administration by coming up with the most vicious, vile attacks ever seen in an American election in order to preserve the GOP majority in Congress. Our candidates will be called traitors, terrorists, supporters of al-Qaeda, and the like.

THE ONLY WAY YOU DEAL WITH THIS IS TO THROW IT BACK IN THEIR FACE. IF YOU ARE NOT WILLING TO FIGHT, GET OUT OF THE FUCKING WAY. IF YOU DON'T FIGHT BACK, PEOPLE WILL ASSUME THAT THEY ARE CORRECT. PERIOD. SO, ATTACK, ATTACK, ATTACK! PEOPLE RESPECT YOU WHEN YOU STAND UP FOR YOUR BELIEFS, IF YOU HAVE ANY.

If Rove fails, and the Democratic Party takes the House back, Bush WILL be investigated, and he WILL be impeached. Then, we will have to hope that the Republicans in the Senate will read the handwriting on the wall and turn their backs on him in order to save the nation.

In fact, please do me a favor if you attend ANY District 9 forums this summer: I want EVERY candidate asked if they would support a bill of impeachment against George Walker Bush. Unless they are willing to say YES, do not vote for them.

This is about far more than who wins; it's about our survival as a democratic republic. I am tired, and it is 1:15 in the morning, and I am going to bed, but I want to to end this post with this:

In Sparta in ancient Greece, mothers would send their warrior sons off to battle with this command: COME BACK WITH YOUR SHIELD OR ON IT.

If we don't have that mentality, and DEMAND that our CANDIDATES have that mentality, the United States of America will soon be only a faded memory.

9 comments:

Brassmask said...

I love that Spartan thing.

That's the only way Dems are going to be taken seriously. Unless we are prepared to lay it all on the line for our beliefs, what are we?

Newscoma said...

Excellent post.

John Harvey said...

I feel the same way about Republicans. Unless we are willing to "burn the boats", we will continue wallowing in the mire. At least, our party isn't defending dead voters, felons, and attempts to import voters from other districts to steal elections.

This next week will be eye opening for many in the metro area - both Rs and Ds. I am calling for removal of ALL members of the local election commission and the executive director. They have failed us and should be replaced with people who know what they are doing - after the system is retooled. I'm also advocating a bipartisan workgroup put together a system that is workable. Visit my website at www.votinginmemphis.com

Steve Steffens said...

What no coupon? No gift basket???? Geez....

Chris Davis said...

Thanks Thurb, I was about to go buy manure for the garden. Now, I don't have to.

autoegocrat said...

Cracker, this was an excellent post. I'm sorry I just noticed it.

Thurbis is scared shitless. Righteous indignation armed with the truth is the single greatest threat to his comfortable rationalizations for having been lied to for so long and so effectively.

I don't know what motivated him to repeat lies from known liars on your website, but I can only guess that it is some form of mortal fear.

A demand from a liberal that not only the Republicans, but also the Democrats clean up their filthy act brings us one step closer to a world where dirty tricks and emotional appeals no longer work to shape public opinion, and that brings us one step closer to the day the Republican Party cleans up its act or dies the death.

Brassmask said...

Call me crazy but it seems like all this verbage is just an attempt to change the subject. Thurb wants to set up all these alleged expectations so that if the Dems fail at one of the smallest insignificant points, he can sit back, along with his ilk and say, "Look, they failed!"

Nonsense. This is classic GOP tactic.

Brassmask said...

Perhaps.

Clearly, it has been SOP for this "administration" since Day One.

Michael Roy Hollihan said...

Going back to Roland and WTL's call to call, I think you're confusing coincidence and causation.

It's simply smart for Roland to step aside. He's committed to running in the Fall. By keeping his name clean, and by looking selfless in this, he enhances his chances in the election. Ophelia Ford is the one who now has huge deficits in trust, appearance, competence and voter goodwill to overcome. Roland just looks like a hard fighter -- a nice image for a politician to have.