We know who we are.
We are the shot heard 'round the world.
We are not just liberal here. We are not just "lefties". We are not just Democratic voters.
We are the biggest group of rebellious, independent thinkers left in this party. We have no truck with the establishment. We don't abide by groupthink. We don't buy media spin and we don't toe the party line ...
We know who we are.
We are the shot heard 'round the world.
We are not just liberal here. We are not just "lefties". We are not just Democratic voters.
We are the biggest group of rebellious, independent thinkers left in this party. We have no truck with the establishment. We don't abide by groupthink. We don't buy media spin and we don't toe the party line.
We are not Old Money Bluebloods. We respect Brahmins the way we respect the World Trade Organization. We'd like to riot on George Kerry's front lawn in Crawford, Massachussets.
We've been through some ups and some downs. We know that Dean is not likely to win, but we also know that we made a promise last year, when 10,000 of us stood in the street, again, cheering on Dean in his appearance in Westlak Square.
It's time to follow through on the promise. We promised ourselves that we would show up on February 7th, and vote for Howard Dean.
It may be true that more people in this region will ultimately turn out for Kerry - people who have been awakened due to the media coverage of the primary in which we have watched John Kerry be annointed by an establishment while Dean has been trashed endlessly.
That's fine. Let these people cheer on as John Kerry emulates Howard Dean's stump speech. Let them be fooled.
All we need to do is keep our promise, which was not just a promise to Dean but to ourselves. We promised to ourselves to support Dean, because:
- We took to the streets against the WTO for the first time it happened in America, and the world listened,
- We took to the streets after the Bush sElection, and the world listened,
- We took to the streets against the appointment of John Ashcroft, knowing that he was a bad man, and now he has abused the powers that John Kerry voted him,
- We took to the streets against the Iraq war, which John Kerry helped to start, forming a white hot movement which stretched across the world.
We've watched as the cheesiest Democratic officials such as the lamentable Gary Locke, Governor of Boeing Corporation, take time off from working for the corporations to stand next to Kerry in front of TV cameras.
We've watched Dean's opposition, our opposition, steal from Dean and attempt to fool us through cheap spin into believing that these other figures really do somehow represent us. And we understand that our intelligences are being insulted by this.
We have integrity, and we have a memory that goes back farther than 3 weeks. And it is time for us to show up and complete our mission, this Saturday, at 10 AM.
It's time to come out and vote, Seattle. We may well lose, but if so, make sure it is the TV-brained spin victim sons of bitches from the suburban and rural areas that do us in, not our own lack of follow through on our commitment. Let them have to drown us out to win rather than letting them win by our default. You know what I mean.