Cross Posted from Never In Our Names
All of my life the Republicans have been my Enemy. When I was 10 years old I remember distinctly telling a group of older people who were criticizing Humphrey at the Democratic Convention in Chicago that the Democrats weren't the problem. It was The Republicans.
I protested Nixon, I protested Reagan, I flipped Bush1 the Bird from up on my Mountaintop and sent him juicy hate mail. Using stamps!
All of my life.
When in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
All of my life I have listened to their peculiar line of Bullshit. All of my life I have watched them choose War over Peace, Greed over Kindness, Oppression over Freedom, Profit over Planet.
All of my life I have watched the battles. Civil rights, human rights, the environment, housing, health care, dignity for the poor, energy, AIDS, mental health, homelessness, corporate greed, women's rights, commercializing culture out of existence, deregulation, education, gay rights, corruption, sexual repression, voter suppression, electoral dirty tricks, repression of alternative energy, military boondoggles, preemptive war, union busting, suspension of democracy, abolishing habeas corpus, secret prison networks, rendition, torture, not to mention rudeness, snideness, lying, cheating, stealing and just plain Assholiness, Jerkwaditude and general repulsiveness. If I ever had an ethical or moral question, All of my life all I had to do is ask what a Republican would do...and then do the opposite.
Six years ago they got everything they ever wanted. Complete control of the government with several elderly Supreme Court Justices. The bastards got the whole enchilada and grabbed the brass ring. It was all theirs, they could finally do whatever they want, pass whatever laws, strip whatever freedoms, invade any countries. Their long held dream of unfettered power and control finally came true.
For six years they have done EXACTLY what they wanted.
Did whatever they pleased while thumbing their noses at the rest of the world.
And now they are drowning in their own shit feces. {Approved by Hunter (c)}
They have gotten exactly what they wanted....this is EXACTLY what happens under the Republicans. This chaos and suffering we see in our country and around the world is EXACTLY what Republican policies produce. ALWAYS. It is a completely unsustainable model, designed to enrich the few, while oppressing EVERYONE but the top 1%. It is a path to destruction.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. -- That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, -- That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.
I have always been curious and horrified at the prospect of this time, what they would do if they actually had unlimited power. Now we know. Everyone here is feeling pretty confident right now...the polls are good, momentum is on our side, the Forces Of Evil are suffering setback after setback...especially in George Bush's War. But is it enough?
All of my life the GOP has stood for Greed, Oppression and Power, but their true corruptness and their true hate and their true avarice has been muted by the fact that they have been checked either by a Democratic Congress or a Democratic President.
Now it's all out in the open, when the Republicans have their way....EVERYONE suffers, except the top 1%.
Is this the America we want?
Is this the America that the average citizen wants?
Is this America at all?
Now......right NOW, my friends we have an absolutely unique opportunity. An HISTORIC opportunity!
This election is NOT a referendum on Iraq, or tax cuts, or sexual predation.
This election is a referendum on RepublicanISM itself.
This, my friends, is a REVOLUTION!!!
If we work hard (as i know we are) we can defeat them at the polling places. If we spread the word and Work Harder and GET OUT THE VOTE!!! .....................we can CRUSH THEM!
And this is what we must do, but ....even that is not enough!
I call on you now, I call on every Kossak, every NIONer, every member of the left Blogosphere...everyone you know, every one you meet, everyone you talk to on the phone....Including the NSA...to make this not just an election, not just a referendum...but a REVOLUTION in America.
NOT just right now but AFTER the election as well!
If we are going to take this fucking country back and make it into what it CAN be, we must destroy Republicanism as viable alternative to TRUE democracy.
We need to PUSH for investigations into corruption, the war, sex scandals, torture and secret prisons and the HUGE pile of Elephant shit in our living rooms and kitchens.
We need to PUSH for the repeal of the Military Commissions Act that codifies torture and abolishes habeas corpus.
We need to PUSH to overturn the NSA spying and covert operations against our fellow Americans.
We will need to PUSH the Democrats to Investigate, Impeach and Imprison the corrupt criminal enterprise known as The Republican Party.
WE the People, need to be The Spine of The Democrats.
AND ALL ALONG THE WAY WE NEED TO POINT OUT THAT THIS IS WHAT REPUBLICANISM DOES TO OUR COUNTRY!
In every stage of these Oppressions We have Petitioned for Redress in the most humble terms: Our repeated Petitions have been answered only by repeated injury. A Prince, whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people.
We need to destroy the MYTH that Republicans are responsible stewards of the economy and war...and prove and yell and scream out at the top of our lungs just how much damage and destruction Republicanism has done to our nation and the world!
Every four years, in America, we have the chance for a bloodless Revolution. This time our opportunity is in the midterms, the opportunity to change governments, to change minds....to truly change the world.
The Republican model is competition and destroying your opposition...whether it be in business, politics or foreign policy. In order to survive the upcoming changes we face on the planet we need to change that to a democratic model of cooperation. THAT will be the change that creates a new and better world for our children and the next Seven Generations. In order to achieve this the model of Republican*ism* must be defeated, discredited ....and if possible destroyed...destroyed at the very least as a concept of viable government.
Do I think this will destroy Republicanism? Destroy greed and corruption and warmongering and racism and class-ism and moral hypocrisy? .............well.............It couldn't hurt!
You may say I'm a dreamer....but I'm not the only one, perhaps some day you will join us.... and the world will be as one.
Revolutions are not started and participated in by 'others,' they are started by YOU!
Let's DO IT!