And probably my last post for a little while.
I am too bitter, and too angry to add much more than I already have said, spread through 2 dozen or more comments.
The US as we know it DIED last night. As the "tailban" as some have taken to calling them consolidates their gains, something new is going to emerge.
Bush co is marching in the boot prints of Hitler and other fascists of the past.
We are not to the point yet where it is fully realized. We are not at the famed "tipping Point" yet were it will be inevitable, but the tide is defiantly running in that direction, and I don't see anybody acknowledging that point in a way that makes any effort to divert us from that course.
Fascist states come from failed democracies, and our democracy has failed, and failed under the twin horsemen of Greed and hatred.
I cannot forecast its exact form, but think about loyalty oaths simply to attend campaign rallies. That is the STARTING POINT. If the dems in the house and Senate don't have to take loyalty oaths or something similar before the next SCHEDULED national election cycle, I would be surprised.
We may get to vote in that one, I don't know if they will move that fast, or hold that particular card for 2008, but unless we get off our butts and change something in the next few weeks, I would not waste my time pretending to think about who might run. If 4 years if we do not change direction, I will predict that there will not BE an election that year, or only candidates approved of by dear leaders inner circle.
Anyway, I need to regroup, rethink and recharge.
I have said in several posts, and in no uncertain terms, As we come nearer to that time, I WILL stand against them. I will not run, I will not hide, I WILL make them go though me personally. I don't hold a lot of hope that it will be any thing more than a symbolic gesture, but patriots have given their lives on ground made sacred by their blood, both here and in other nations to stop EXACTLY THESE PEOPLE, in other bodies and other names. I can do no less than put my self in the same harms way if and when that time comes.
I know these ideas are considered hyperbole, or if sincere paranoia. An election lost to "faith" to a man as shallow, faithless and dishonorable as Mr. Bush, is unmistakably a step on that path.
So, until I have something more constructive to add, I need to go sulk and heal in private. I just have to catch my breath, I was TRULY caught off guard by how suddenly they pulled this off. Stolen, or just outmaneuvered us with stealth voters, it does not matter. Stick a fork in the US it is done. Our choice is how to pick up the pieces, or let the new order pick them up.
Good night, all. I will be lurking, but I cannot say anything right now without repeating myself, and I just don't think I am in a good state of mind to offer anything constructive beyond yelling one last time
"Get off your duffs and DO SOMETHING ABOUT THIS MESS or be helpless as it consolidates."
I would wish you peace, but I don't think that word will have much real use in English for some time, except as a prayer or a fantasy.