I have woken up so many times to find things the same as they were the day before that it's still surreal waking up with hope that things really have changed. Now that the Democratic party and in particular the progressive caucus have been elevated to power by the mandate of the people we will see change. Many of you, I would wager, are still recovering from the Champaign hangovers of that night. There is much to celebrate. We now have the chance to return accountability to our government, sanity to our economy, and liberty to ourselves. Junior looks like Poppy took him to the woodshed and he's had to give his warlord the boot. Just ask any progressive, things couldn't look sunnier. I am sure you know where this is going.
I want them to remember why they need us!
-High Chancellor Adam Sutler, V for Vendetta
I have been watching this freak and his crew operate so long I don't believe a thing they show me anymore. If he said it was raining I would look up just to make sure. I don't even think he's an idiot. Everything he shows us says he's a dolt so I think that's what he wants us to believe. Everything we see now says he is beaten. Keep your heads up and your eyes open Freedom Loving Americans; this is what the illusionists call misdirection and I would think this trick would be familiar to us by now. Their only hope to get away with anything else, at this point, is to create a distraction so great and so terrible that we would forget who they are and trust them once more. They'll only try something so dangerous if they think the audience isn't watching.
They started a job. To end 230 years of democracy; to bring fascism in to power where freedom once prevailed. Now since democracy is what they seek to destroy why should we imagine they haven't planned for this. They have made the people afraid of their own freedoms, now all they need to do is make us afraid of our own decisions, to make us afraid of democracy. If something happens that makes the majority of the nation question the safety of relying on the whims of democracy then their job will be almost complete.
We, the Freedom Loving Americans, also have a job. All Americans, by birth or by choice, share the duty to defend our democracy. We have fulfilled a part of that duty. We raised our voice through our vote. So it is now our job to remain aware, active, and able to stop them from going any further with their job. We do this by questioning everything. So many movements have been hamstrung by focusing all their energy on one issue only to have the powers at be resolve that issue thus blocking the inertia of progress. So yes question the war and the war profiteers. Question the voting machines. Question corporate citizenship. Question oil addiction. Question the economic stratification. Question anyone who puts a price tag on free speech or any other basic human right. Question what possible hope unfunded, third world, fundamentalist, terrorist have of pulling off a major attack in this country without our government knowing about it. Question any American that believes that the only way to keep ourselves safe is to sacrifice what makes us Americans, that includes Junior. Keep asking yourself which way the wind blows, be your own weatherman. So long as you keep asking yourself the right questions they won't be able to make you look the other way while they make democracy disappear.
We also have to keep our new congress in check. We have to remind them day in and day out that it is our will they serve. They must received e-mails keeping them focused on the many issues we sent them to address. We must report in our journals when the delegates are not serving our interests, even more so when it appears they are serving their own instead. We gave them this job and so it is our duty to properly instruct them on how it should be done. An aware populace in communication with its leaders is not an easily misdirected audience.