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who doesn't believe in violence, even in self-defense. Who is also suffering from confusion because honesty and non-violence are key elements of the belief structure our steel toe booted opponent's lay claim to. Surely this can't be happening? We've never even locked our doors before--while we didn't always agree with our steel toe booted neighbors, they've never resorted to this. Even if they had, our other neighbor was a reporter for the local TV/Newspaper, and anybody who kicked the crap out of a sleeping neighbor would have been front page news... Yes, we are aware that the local TV/Newsaper have recently been bought up by a "Major Corporation" (also known for making steel toed boots), but we never thought it would come to this--they just turn a blind eye to such goings on. So, our surprise is wearing thin--it seems kind of obvious now... at first the TV/News stopped covering alot of things, and "those" types of neighbors had begun tossing eggs on "our" cars... but we wrote it off to some sort of personal circumstances we weren't privy to--maybe they'd just had a bad day and were letting off some steam at our expense. Still we never thought they'd come into our homes and kick the crap out of us. Never dreamed they'd take over the City and County (and State and Federal) governments... and start passing laws that infringe on our rights... we tolerated it... we tried to negotiate--and they played along... We thought it was kind of strange that they insisted on upgrading the paper ballot system to a computerized one--one made by one of their uncle's Mega Corporation (also known for their fine quality Brass Knuckles)... but hey, we thought that was progress. We were dumfounded though... when suddenly we lost the Mayor's office and the heads of all the major departments across the board? We just figured everybody in town had just decided they wanted a change--so they voted most of us out. It really was kind of unlikely that we lost some of those races, though... I mean the polls leading up to the election said we were winning by 15 points! That's alot... we thought. Then too, the "exit polls" said we were winning all day election day! Up until late that evening--everyone believed we had won soundly! But suddenly, apparently all those steel toed people are 'night people' because they appeared to vote very late indeed. Still, they did "beat us"... almost exactly the reverse of the early evening exit polls... What could have happened? Maybe we hadn't gotten enough of our friends registered to vote--yeah, many of them didn't really get registered--there was some sort of flub up at the Registrar's Office--but then again, the new commissioner of elections (who wears high-heeled steel toed boots) is rather new on the job--having been elected by a surprise landslide a couple of years ago, so perhaps they'd just made a mistake (thousands of them, but you gotta give 'em a break). So, they "must" have beaten us "fair and square"; after all, electoral "fraud" is virtually unheard of in this country--it couldn't happen here--not here...
Well, after thinking it over--and having seen thousands of cases of highly suspicious electoral events... and having repeatedly lost races we should have won, and having experienced this for six or eight years... and seeing it get worse as more and more steel toed boot electronic voting systems installed... maybe... just maybe... they cheated?
We've been kicked and beaten with clubs, we've had our votes stolen or lost, we've seen our government do things we would never have imagined... and more. Much more.
Therefore... we think we should maybe organize or something. If only one of would step up and "lead" us. We're getting scared and starting to realize that the other side has declared "Total War"--and did so many years ago... It's a bit late, we've lost almost everything. Still, we feel like surely we can reason with the other side--convince them of the error of their ways...
They've all but excluded us from participating in governing--ooops, they've actually already excluded us from that too. Well, we'll show them! If we WISH HARD ENOUGH, somehow we'll get better results next election! Surely.
That's the ticket! Everybody! Listen Up! We've GOT TO ORGANIZE so that WE ALL WISH FOR THE SAME THING! That will solve our problems!
:sarcasm:
Okay, Okay, it's not that bad. Close perhaps, but not. Still, I don't see the kind of activity that we already need to have in place--our most critical election is something like 9 months away (and getting closer every day, apparently).
The reality is: we have a President who was not elected by the people--a kind of Coup d'état. It's almost unimaginable, but it certainly seems all but certain. What are we going to do about it? Are we going to let this false government stand--especially as the role we are allowed is little more than for appearances... We "look" like a Democracy--but are we? If they don't oppress us to the degree Mussolini or Hitler did, are we going to just go along with it--not make waves? The alternative could really be scary! Can we "handle the truth"?
If we don't demand real reform in our voting systems--massive reform--we are tacitly agreeing to abide by this new authoritarian government... Somehow we really must find a way to act--even without the benefit of mass communications (another area from which we have been excluded). Such communications are invaluable for organizing, motivating and educating large numbers of people; it's a handicap--but one we must overcome.
I write this... I read similar exclamations... but what purpose does it serve? What good is it? Nothing comes of it. We really do need leaders to lead us. Where are our leaders? Or is it that there really is nothing we can do? We have to just wait and hope we can decrease the majority we face in Congress? It appears we aren't even going to try in states/races where we have no "real" chance (but if we don't try now, things won't ever change--the future will come and next time around we won't stand a chance again--and some of the people who vote the way they vote do so out of ignorance--they don't even understand why they vote the way they do or the harm caused by it--we have to fix this--and do so without TV--an impossible chore). Oh well... I'll just sit here and WISH REAL HARD that some more effective activity becomes apparent.
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