by johnny nemo » Mon Oct 09, 2006 3:20 pm
postrchild,<br><br>I live in Austin, as well and I share your dismay at the new districts.<br>I used to be able to walk across the street from my house and vote for the fascist crook of my choice, and now I gotta go across town to do it.<br><br>-----------------------------------------------------------<br><br>MASONIC PLOT,<br><br>I wanna build a bridge here, because I like your "take no prisoners" style.<br><br>You describe the system we have now as anarchy, but I call it feudalism.<br>We're the serfs.<br>We create all the wealth and the clergy and aristocrats shake us down for our "tithes". <br><br>We do, however, have the power to change all this; it's called voting.<br>I agree with your assessment of many of the candidates they parade in front of us in their lil "dog and pony" show.<br><br>I do, however, remember a time when the American people were so disillusioned after Watergate, that they hired a man who swore that he would "never tell a lie to the American people" and he didn't.<br>Around the same time, there was a man elected mayor of Cleveland, who stood up for the Tom Joads there.<br><br>I'm not saying that Jimmy Carter and Dennis Kucinich are perfect, but they were definitely progressives.<br><br>Let's add the name Cynthia McKinney to the mix and imagine a world where we are represented locally by someone like Kucinich, represented on a national basis by someone like Cynthia McKinney and on an Executive level by someone like Carter.<br>Things would be a HELLUVA lot better than they are now.<br><br>Guess what?<br>There is someone like that right now involved in politics in every town, city, munincipality, burough and state in America.<br>All they need is (y)our support.<br><br>You say the system is too corrupt and they'lll never make it?<br>Get everyone you know who believes half of what you do about what's wrong with this country to support this person.<br>Get them to sign petitions, man phones, go door to door, get them air time on Public Access TV, i.e. run them as far up the flag pole as far as you can, and THEN you can say that you tried your hardest and it didn't work.<br><br>Or, you can not vote and watch as the whole thing goes under and as we all rot away in our Halliburton-built, FEMA detention camps, you can gloat over how self-satisfied and vindicated you feel by your non-participation. <p></p><i>Edited by: <A HREF=http://p216.ezboard.com/brigorousintuition.showUserPublicProfile?gid=johnnynemo>johnny nemo</A> at: 10/9/06 1:30 pm<br></i>