The Sickening Thwack of Skull Cracking On Pavement Becomes

the steady wet thump and smack smack smack of splayed skin mixed with brain matter against the concrete sidewalk. Had it not been for the hand on shoulder of my best friend, that is most likely what I would have experienced.  Well, experienced is too sensory a word, because the one time I lost violent control of myself there was no immediate experience.  It was a delicious flash of overwhelming electricity.  No thoughts entered or exited my brain just a constant rage, blinding and almost coma like. Exhilirating.

Upon waking up from my friends pull, I was sickened by what I had become, by what I was capable of doing. Killing would have been easy in that moment. The reason for it was related to love/anger, jealousy, insecurity and so much more, but the details are not important.

How this relates to us below...

What is important is that what I felt is what we as a collective of leaders in the Progressive movement (Yes, I said leaders.  Whether you want to admit it or not everyone reading this dairy is a leader. An early adopter of our creed and beliefs, and way for transforming our world from one that cares only for individuals and gives a shit about each other) must feel right now.

We must feel a singular focus upon destruction of everything Republicans stand for.  We must feel the rush of anger and the loss of sensory existence. We must inhale the electricity and absorb it in to our core. I am going to do it for Zach (my baby boy). I am not suggesting physical violence, but I am suggesting a violent rush of overwhelming support and work for what we believe and for what we must do at all cost to destroy their last shred of hope and "dignity" (such as it is).

That to me is what Devilstower is really saying in this diary: http://www.dailykos.com/...

Are you ready to let go? It can only be accomplished by letting go of all boundaries and allowing yourself to be sucked into the vortex of andrenaline, excitement, and freedom that will come from the steady thump, thump, thump of the Republican party's brain against the pavement of truth.

Do you have what it takes?

•  Nice channelling of Ehrenburg

  Ilya Ehrenburg was one of the chief propagandists of Stalin's era. As Alexander Werth points out in the tome "Russia at War", Ehrenburg was fond of such subtle, bland milk-toast statements as:

  "Now we understand the Germans are not human. Now the word 'German' has become the most terrible curse. Let us not speak. Let us not be indignant. Let us kill. If you do not kill a German, a German will kill you. He will carry away your family, and torture them in his damned Germany. If you have killed one German, kill another."

  To which I would mad-lib:

  Now we understand the Republicans are not American. Now the word 'Republican' has become the most terrible curse. Let us not speak. Let us not be indignant. Let us remove them from office. If you do not remove a Republican from office, a Republican  will kill you, either by drafting you, by allowing you to get some infectious disease, by seeing that you can't get medical care, and by being indifferent when catastrophe strikes. He will carry away your family, and torture them in his damned Guantanamo. If you have removed one Republican from office, remove another.

  by Mumon on Sat Oct 14, 2006 at 10:26:25 PM PDT

•  Well, no. Not really

  I don't have what it takes.

  I'm a bad follower.

  by opendna on Sun Oct 15, 2006 at 03:39:41 AM PDT

•  Sounds messy.

  I think I'd rather hear the thump, thump, thump of progressive ideals and ideas impacting Republican brains.  Or maybe, from time to time, the thump of a well-placed boot in the ass.

  by altoid on Sun Oct 15, 2006 at 06:51:49 AM PDT