I think the Democrats have missed something Vital.
A) I still Believe that we WON this last round, But between Disenfranchisement, Outright Fraud, and some VERY clever propaganda, a revolution was staged right in front of us.
B) Since Tuesday, while we have been crying in our Beers, and NOT taking any action, the thugs have been consolidating their gains.
We MIGHT have until Monday. By Monday, if we are not on yje field, in big enough numbers that the preess physically cannot ignore us, it si over.
We lost people. Reality is irrelevant, WE LOST, according to the meme that is taking shape.
By the end of the week, we could have a news conference with Rove and his people BRAGGING about how they stole this thing and that the dems DD INDEED win by 400+ ev, 75% of the pop vote, and all down ballot offices, and WE STILL HAVE LOST. CNN and the other news nets are all MUCH more propaganda than Fox ever dared to be in the past, And FOX... All I can say is IT WAS CHILLING, in a truly FASCIST, PROPAGANDA sort of way.
FACE it.
A draft dodger, who went AWOL has SUCCESSFULLY been sold as beating a DECORATED war hero, ON MORALS.
A thief and a serial liar, has SUCCESSFULLY been sold as beating A man with a 20 year record as a public servant, ON MORALS.
A "christian" who does not even pretend to live his personal or public life to ANY standard of behaviour that a fellow christian would accept from ANYONE else, has successfully been sold as beating a devte catholic, who has a long history in public life, and anicdotes that his privet life, though private, has been held to those same standards on MORALS.
This thing is OVER. WHATEVER REALITY IS, he FANTASY has been cut in to bite sized chucks, and is as we speak being delivered though out our land.
They have managed to make the MAJORITY of our nation, believe that each of them individually stands alone, and that a very small minority represents the mainstream.
Now, if I have your attention, the reality at this time is, unless we can kick start a MAJOR counterrevolution, COMPLETE with TV of MILLIONS in the streets, BY MONDAY, BY TUESDAY, the pogroms begin. BY NEXT FRIDAY, I do no longer want ANYBODY who might have even TASTED the Kool-Aid to be aware that I am a liberal, and since my faith is the polar opposite of the fairy tale being shaped in the press, I do not want to be publicly known for my faith either.
In short, By January, many of the things I have said on this board and in public, and even to Bush supporters out loud, will be painted as unpatriotic, and even treasonous, and will be grounds for attacks, and officially sanctioned retaliations.
A three percent margin of victory, and 40 EV two senate pickups, and maybe two house seats is NOT a mandate. It is a RAZOR THIN MARGIN OF VICTORY, even if it was the true results, with questions about the propriety of large swaths of the vote, it is as thin as 2000, yet for the last 4 years they have gotten away with things that by rights this nation would never stand for.
NOW they are either painting a very narrow partisan Victory at best, or a MASSIVE loss more likely, as a MANDATE from the MAINSTREAM, even though by any measure the mainstream opposes everything they stand for.
The election was hard fought and close, but the post election spin has gone %100 to the thugs, and the propaganda machine is seriously building for a sustained, deliberate push to rid the body politic of the nasty, corrosive stick of the liberal agenda that they claim is rotting the soul of `merica. And you know what, people are BUYING IT.
So, I am leaving this board, and all political boards. I am curling up and hiding who and what I am. It is the only viable strategy to LIVE though at least the next several years, and likely permanently until we can figure out a way to stage a revolution of our own.
It's been nice knowing you all, but when they start rounding people up, I intend to be quite in my corner, leaving everybody alone so that I am not rounded up with everybody else. Sure, this sounds paranoid. But, watch Fox for ten minuets, and you will see that My statements are actually optimistic. There will be blood in the streets, figuratively at first, and physically in the next several months ABD IT WILL NOT BE THE BLOOD OF THE CONSERVATIVES, IT WILL BE OURS.
So good by, and have a good life. If you truly think this is hyperbole, or paranoia, just remember my words after you are placed into the concentration camps, or what ever euphemism they come up with.
I plan to live to fight another day. Or at least for the day that the liberals realized the cost and the stakes of what happened this week.
I have said I will fight for my country, and I meant that, but standing alone in front of a mob is NOT what I had in mind. Start something that can take our country back, but is will NOT be started by words, it will be started in violence, and until enough of us realize that and are willing to pick up that sacrifice, anyone who wants to live to see the other side will have to endure, silently and privately.
If I were to be completely wrong, (if I AM wrong, I fear it is by UNDERESTIMATING what these thugs are planning.) I is a harmless paranoia, But people thought I was over reacting that the election was in danger for the last year, or that they had the power to steal it as BOLDLY and unashamedly as they have.
But, if I am even close to describing what is coming, these words alone, as well as countless others that I have already spoken and written WILL be evidence at my trial, or repeated to the mob that comes for me.
What they achieved from outside the mainstream has been breathtaking. Now they are quickly convincing the mainstream that it is out of step with the mood in the country!!!!!! (a VERY neat trick, that Machiavelli would have been proud of, and George Orwell warned us about with such precision you have to feel like he lived through these times. ( he did. The sense that we are on the eve of the birth of a fascist state to rival Nazi Germany or Stalinist Russia is chilling me to my very bones.
So, scurry about, pretend that the old political calculus works, and we just got the figures wrong, and that nothing has changed. The US is dead, as we have known it, FREEDOM in our land is dead! And standing in the way of the new paradigm is suicide, unless enough of us make a stand, and most of you don't even seem to realize we have already crossed the last bridge and are traveling deep into foreign countryside.
Have a nice life. For your sakes as well as our nation's sake I pray that I am mistaken, and this is all just my worst nightmare disturbing a troubled mind. But if you stop talking among yourselves and put a finger to the wind, watch a little TV news, and listen to what YOUR FELLOW CITIZENS, many of who still have the same beliefs as you do are being QUOTED as saying, you will start to feel the same chill wind that I do. Once you feel this wind, then you can gauge who accurately I am reading the situation, but you better check the weather for yourselves before you dismiss me out of hand. McCarthy will be recorded as an amateur, not even capable of DREAMING of the power these folks are already consolidating.
Yes I am talking in metaphors, these are not conventional times, these are apocalyptic times and to accurately discuss them requires apocalyptic language.
It is late in the forth quarter,and we are down by three touchdowns, And yet everbody still thinks we are in the fist half. It is OVER, the band has taken the field, and if you are still fighting the old fights, you will be taken out with the rest of the debris in a few minutes.
Just don't stand there asking why when you are arrested. By that time even the most optimistic amng you should have realized what happened.
To use the Lord of the Rings metaphor we are in Gondor, Thieodin is no where in sight,and Suaron is storming the gates. We don't know where the ring is, Arigorne is not yet arrived. (in the books he arrives to save us, but I don't see that happening.
I am huddling down to either waste my life in the last great battle, if anyone will join me, or huddle in a small room somewhere hoping against hope that there comes a day when the enemy is weak enough that I dare even look for the light. ALL LIGHT IS, EVEN AS WE SPEAK, beginning to be crushed from the land. I can hide my very small light against the wind for a day when others are willing to fight, or I can wrap myself tighter against the wind and pretend this is just a passing storm, and the sun will come out tomorrow. But this is not the darkness of a passing storm, it is the darkness of a passing AGE, and Sauron IS winning, is on the verge of having already won. We saw Europe in the 30's the 40's and the fifties, and this looks like the same darkness creeping back over the world to me.
Take me seriouly or don't, my survival insticts don't allow room for me to care right now. I have shouted warnings that this was what was comming, and no one took me seriously before. Now I must survive, and that means I don't have time for handwringing, or even to figure out the mechanics of how they pulled it off.
The thugs are on the march, and if I stand before them, the only prayer I have is to stand wiyth my eyes open and with people whose eyes are open, otherwise I will waste my light, to no good purpose, and we all do that, who will be left to bring light back into the world.
The wind here and in other liberal strong holds is that no one has yet faced the FACTS that the battle is over, and the maurading orcs have won the day, and are stipping the land. It is too late to join the battle, IT HAS ALREADY BEEN FOUGHT AND LOST. Trying to refight that battle is a waste of energy. The WAR tryly hindges on what we do this weekend. We have been unable to even slow them down in 3 days, when peopel still vaugly recall he reality that what the thugs represent, is four square against where the mainstream stands. Once the transformation is compleate, we have no tools, INCLUDING MASS protests, that will recover what we are in the procss of losing.
Goodby all. Good journey and good luck, but I expect that this is the last time for a VERY long time that I will say this things to ANYONE outside VERY CLOSE personal friends, and even then only if I know I can trust them WITH MY LIFE.
Mr tek