We have to do more than just vote.

[Philosoraptor]

I will vote, and I know you will too, and I know that it is important and so many people marched and fought and died for our right to vote. But as a nation we have to do more than simply vote against the most dangerous group of maniacs to ever haunt our halls of government.

I sometimes think that voting is almost the least we can do. You take off a few hours and you go to the polls and you pull a lever and you go home and you wait. We will do that in a few days, but what will change? Will the maniacs be gone? Even if we had a Democratic house and senate and president, are the maniacs going away?

We may win this November, we may not, it doesn't matter either way, this isn't a sporting event, you can't say our team won or lost and then go back to the routine.

Something much more important must occur besides simply voting. Something concrete, something real, something like finally admitting, "alright, enough is enough already".

We have to do something more than just write corrupt congressmen, more than demonstrating, more than talking and more than polling, although all these things are important, we need to do more to fight back against these craziest of all crazies.

We need to try to explain to everyone, even the republicans, that we are in grave danger with these maniacs at the helm, grave danger. We need to do more, don't ask me what, I have no clue and am taking suggestions.

Don't get me wrong, voting is important and I will vote with you, but we've got to do more than vote to forever rid the white house of these maniacs, and see to it that their kind never occupy it again, forever.

[rfranklin]

1. I tried to talk to a lady Republican this past week and...

she was shaking her head vigorously and almost at the point of putting her fingers in her ears when I pointed out that the plan to invade Iraq and Iran was formulated long before 9/11. (As a real estate agent, she was bemoaning the fact that the home sales were now at zero. I mentioned that I was concerned about how the economy would fare when Iran was attacked.)

Her comeback was that Clinton was a "sleazy, lying , dishonest, lowlife," etc.

[twilight_sailing]

2. I propose a coalition of truth seekers, who will put truth above party.

Last week I read a letter to the editor in the El Paso times. If the facts of the matter were as the letter writer claimed, I too would hold his position. But he had his facts wrong.

This coalition will not attract Dittoheads but surely there are moral right wingers who care whether the truth is told or not. We might learn a thing or two from them too. We might find that we are not so far apart, we might find that the biggest obstacle we face is our understanding of the facts.