BROTHERS! SISTERS! NOW WE MUST FIGHT!
You! Yes you! Put down that coffee and prepare for BATTLE
(note: Coffee will be provided at the battlefield.)
If you're like me, Obama's speech embodies everything we MUST strive for in this, and every election. I listened to it in my car in a parking lot on the edge of Lake Michigan. It's foggy. My faith in American discourse, and the American experiment is restored. I'm an atheist, but last night I found myself wishing I beleived in God so I could pray for Obama. I see that was unnecessary.
Reason is restored. Who can find fault with his eloquent, brave, and unequivocal statement? Let's relax, have a cup of coffee and a donut. This thing's over.
BUT WAIT!
...Do you hear that sound? It's the steady grinding as the right wing war machine spins up. Soon it will be DEAFENING
That smell? The sulfurous breath of the Children of Goebbels as they prepare to repeat lie after lie on an endless loop.
Already, we hear the choristers of hate tune up their infernal song. Obama is a narcissist. NEWS FLASH: Obama embraces hate pastor.
NOW IS THE TIME TO FIGHT! Go forth and flood comment boards, write letters, call radio shows, reconnoiter and disrupt the enemy's information centers! Root out and expose the lies! DEFEND TRINITY UNITED CHURCH OF CHRIST. Denounce haters and sock puppets! DO NOT SPEND ALL YOUR VALUABLE TIME ON DKOS! GET OUT THERE!
NOW IS THE TIME TO PIN THE ENEMY DOWN! We outnumber them. If enough of us take turns engaging them on comment boards, they'll waste all of their time trying to win an obscure and irrelevant battle, and will utterly lose the war. But DON'T WASTE huge amounts of your own time on discussion forums that ultimately don't matter. The point is to work in shifts to keep the haters engaged in a pointless battle.
NOW IS THE TIME TO DEFEND! Make sure Obama's speech is broadly circulated WITHOUT the overlay of right wing commentary. They are desperately trying to seize the narrative, to pervert this.
NOW IS THE TIME TO HEAL! Offer support and encouragement for each other in online and public forums. Band together in full view of the enemy.
I'm new to this community, but plan to stay. In other news, the effort I described previously to get NYT to retract its Hillary endorsement is on hold. A pretty good sized group of people are ready to do this, but we've decided 1) this is too divisive right now and 2) we have more important things to do.