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one thing we need to get straight...
Nov. 4th, 2004 10:25 am"The Government" did not "defeat the people". I got half way into Margaret Cho's "don't despair; act" blog post before I started wanting to scream. Yes, act - don't despair. But don't characterize the other side as The Man and us as The People. It's not as simple as that. We are all a little bit of both.
And people did vote for Bush. So if you talk like the government is squashing the peeps on this one, you're basically discounting the humanity of Bush supporters (possibly a valid question, I guess). Half the voters apparently think Bush is the bomb for various reasons, and they're likely to continue thinking that unless we change their minds. Shouting angrily at them isn't going to make things better; what are we going to do, take the country back by force? Gather up a progressive junta? Might be fun, but maybe not quite in line with our ideals, huh?
[ETA text of the blog entry I made on this same subject. Cause LJ's not reading the blog feed and the blog post's a much more well-considered rant than this one. ( text behind cut )]
And people did vote for Bush. So if you talk like the government is squashing the peeps on this one, you're basically discounting the humanity of Bush supporters (possibly a valid question, I guess). Half the voters apparently think Bush is the bomb for various reasons, and they're likely to continue thinking that unless we change their minds. Shouting angrily at them isn't going to make things better; what are we going to do, take the country back by force? Gather up a progressive junta? Might be fun, but maybe not quite in line with our ideals, huh?
[ETA text of the blog entry I made on this same subject. Cause LJ's not reading the blog feed and the blog post's a much more well-considered rant than this one. ( text behind cut )]