342 word version May I suggest a simple distinction between voters? One group believes in a God of their own image: sitting on a throne; possessing familiar human passions... a lord who is directly involved in, even controlling, their lives. The other contains a much larger spectrum: from people who firmly believe in a God, but one who’s beyond our ability to grasp, all the way to atheists, with countless variations in between. This distinction has profound implications considering the unopposed groundswell of scared people who have been convinced they’re God’s personal agents. People who believe rational dialogue is damnable. People who resent science, its rules and fact-based findings. Look at how Tea Partiers {faith-based right-wing} ignore all that doesn’t fit into their old world tribal dogmas. We are facing an election where liberal minded voters are figuring to heck with it, we’ll sit this one out. Kind of like in 2000 when Clinton so disgusted his faithful, that they couldn’t bother to get out and vote for Gore. Instead we, and the world, got Bush’s “war of choice." Heck, 9/11 probably wouldn’t have happened! Why? Because Gore, and the bureaucracy, would have been listening to our terrorism experts. Those incoming intelligence signals would have been heeded. Instead, we had a faith-based administration with no interest in our experts’ opinions because they had God on their side. See what that’s gotten us. A war that has only succeeded in elevating the true enemy’s abilities to unimagined levels, at a horrific cost in blood, materials, and money. OK, there’s no going back, but shouldn’t we heed this hard lesson? We can scoff that Democrats suck in 101 ways, but they’re all we got! That old song keeps echoing in my mind: “America, where are you now? Don’t you care about your sons and daughters? Don’t you know, we need you now!" On this one out of 730 days, the only one when your opinion actually matters, please motivate and VOTE. Help in this struggle of rationality over dogma. And, bring a few friends with you. SATURDAY, OCTOBER 9, 2010It would be nice to think this year will bring something different, constructive, …, we can hope people become engaged on a deeper level that in the past bunch of elections. What arguments would you suggest for inspiring today's sleep-walkers?
Reinstitute the draft. That’ll get young’ns out to vote.
Seriously, stress the importance of fighting climate change and forgiving student loan debt, as well as raising the minimum wage, providing health care to everyone in the country and how Republicans continue to oppose equal rights for all.
Reinstitute the draft. That'll get young'ns out to vote. Seriously, stress the importance of fighting climate change and forgiving student loan debt, as well as raising the minimum wage, providing health care to everyone in the country and how Republicans continue to oppose equal rights for all.They also oppose free--or even reasonably priced healthcare for all, free or reasonably priced education for all, and decent wages for all. The Republican mantra is that to do this would be giving things away for free, which would make people lazy. This has been their mantra for as long as the Republican party has been in existence. If people don't have poverty, ignorance and bad health hanging over their heads, they won't work! Republicsns also perpetuate the lie that reducing taxes on wealthy individuals and corporations creates jobs. That Is absolutely untrue. Give them tax breaks and they either hide the money in offshore accounts where it's protected from taxation, or ship jobs offshore. This is why I could never vote for a Republican. Every single one of them is blind to reality. They have their philosophical crutch and that's all they need or want and people have fallen for it for ever. If Republicans are so sure they can create jobs with tax cuts, their tax cuts should be repayable with interest if they haven't created enough steady jobs for Americans to justify the cuts they have received. They should have to pay back every cent of the money they did not have to pay in taxes the following year, with interest. And they should also get tax increases for every job they cut or sent offshore. Let them put their money where their mouths are. I'm sick of hearing the Republican jobs mantra when they never have to prove they are creating any or maintaining any or paying a living wage. They just keep singing the same tired song over and over, and too many people sing along with them.