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Because we are approaching another moment in American history when a certain number of people will line up to vote to have Bright!Bright!, screaming, meaningless shapes and colors and pretty lies divorced from reality and physics flung into their eyes at high velocity for another four years.
They will do this based on a toxic and childish (not childlike) sense of nostalgia for better days that never were, and a great love of blowing up people and things that make them nervous in spectacular ways wherein they themselves are never at any risk of injury or discomfort.
And queuing up next to them to vote are a certain number of people who think this witchbag of village idiots, voyeurs and vampires can never again be allowed to run our country.
And our job is to make sure that the latter so massively outnumbers the former that 2008 will not be so much an election as an extinction event.
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End the Republican party.
Right On! Concise, accurate and dialed in.
Do not let them go gentle.
Go? Certainly. Saddled with the bags of crap they've hurled at us, the burdensome debt and the inane agendized bureaucrats they will try to leave behind.
Give them their rapture and commence their wandering days. At least those not sentenced to the stocks of public ridicule and humiliation for their crimes.
But it's not a Ron Popeil Showtime Oven. It won't be Mission Accomplished in January. All it will be is a good start.
If we do the follow-up right we can immunize our future against the sickness that hides in politics.
Apropos to your description of the two kinds of people lining up to vote this November, I have just started reading Perlstein's "Nixonland". This book is all about how Richard Nixon tapped into the psychic discontent of the "village idiots, voyeurs and vampires" of our Nation-- and yoked them to the cart of capitalist plutocracy--to gain political power.
The Republican Party has been leveraging off this discontent ever since. And Perlstein's book is fucking fascinating, and well-written. The only downside is it's fucking LONG! Like over 700 pages of pretty small type.
Driftg, you are so good ("extinction event" indeed!), I'm ready to follow you into battle.
I just viraled to my readers the NYT review on NixonLand and agree with Physioprof's comments. Don't let Perlsteins's occasional misses (and length!) deter your reading. Worth it.
Suzan
Well, lofty praise from lofty voices out there from beyond! One and all!
I'll echo Drifty, and all you sage sages.
And bless all y'all for what you bring to the screen for us blog impaired progressives with a voice, but no script to use it other than the usual banter.
It's YOU folks soaring high, who keep the bar up, the bar's open, the pie higher n bigger and the rest of us as sane as we can be under the circumstances.
Extinction Event. Yer doing it all wrong!! *G*
You bloggers rawhk, each and every one.
Thank you.
... 2008 will not be so much an election as an extinction event.
Welcome to Hammer-Strike Meteor 2008. It whipped dinosaur ass. Hell, it whipped 75 percent of existing species' asses 75 million years ago. Extinction-by-Democratic-Meteor is good enuf for Republicans with Negative-Number IQs. (All of 'em.)
I see that I was not alone in picking up on "Extinction Event" as a battle cry to guide us through November. And beyond.
Apocalypse.
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