Thank you from the essence of my being for fighting the good fight.
Remarkably, I don't have that utter despair and helplessness I felt after the election - probably because you and others in the Democratic Party are standing up with strength and conviction.
It is that inner moral compass that you and we have that we must rely upon more strenuously today than any other day in the history of our lives. I strongly suspect that when the Iraq thing came up that many in power had their misgivings.
It is sometimes admirable to yield - especially when one has wielded power in the past. It is gracious to bend, because this creates an arena in which mutual understanding is nurtured. But with the Iraq war, we failed to listen to our inner voices, and bent, not knowing the destruction and desolation that would follow.
Now is the time to marshall our inner strength - that voice that knows without question right from wrong - the part of us that does not compromise. We are fighting a fight worse than Viet Nam, worse than Watergate, worse than Iran/Contra, worse than the devil in the blue dress. We are fighting for the America we love, the America we have forgiven countless times, the America the world once loved. We must, we simply must, become again a beacon for the oppressed peoples, before hope is lost throughout the world.
And so, re-engergized by your, and other's displays of conviction and fortitude, I ask you, with utter desperation, to focus completely now on the election mechanism in America today. I'm no tin foil hat - I'm a former (now retired) systems analyst with extensive experience in computer programming and computer systems design.
The election in 2000 should have gone to Gore. The election in 2004 should have gone to Kerry. The system is rigged. We have no hope to escape the coming world wide oppression if this isn't fixed immediately.
It isn't even a subject in the main stream media. This has to get out and it has to get out and fixed.
Please make this your focus, and the focus of the DNCC for the 2006 elections. We don't have to worry about earning votes at all. We just need to have them counted correctly. There isn't a Republican I know who isn't a tad uneasy...