Reply #27: Well I can't sleep, so here's a long one: Face Reality

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Like most, I am hopeful that something might happen to change the outcome of the election, but let's face it - we lost the popular vote by 3 million votes. While it is conceivable that fraud could have happened in the one or two states that tipped the election, a fraud of 3 million votes is a real stretch. Lets face it folks, this party has real problems. We have totally lost the young white working class vote, the heart and soul of the democrat party since the Great Depression. We have allowed the Repugs to make big inroads into other constituencies as well. I really fear that this vote fraud issue is going to cause us to stick our head in the sand - we got clobbered, and it is time to face up to it.

The Repugs have become superbly organized, with a media machine that runs a 24/7 operation on message everywhere in the country, and it was this monster that has been stripping away the white working class voters from us for years, while we totally, totally missed what was going on. Instead of Winston's TV set on the wall in the novel "1984", the Repugs have converted the AM radio in the workingman's car into the same thing. The "talk show hosts" (aka Repug operatives) use the Internet to communicate among themselves to make sure they are all talking about the same thing all across the nation on any given day. They only peddle one thing - outrage - and they only blame one thing - us - for everything.

To ice the cake, they now have added a cable "news" channel in Fix, which spreads the same lies and makes them into headlines, and they are now making huge in roads into other cable news channels as well. With this massive multi-media machine, they have convinced average working people that we are not to be trusted. We have failed miserably at countering this.

Success breeds success. The most ominous thing I have seen here in Houston, is they are now putting "local" black right wing hosts on the air - what the hell, they got something that works, they stole our core constituency with it while we did nothing, and now they are going to do the same to the black people - saturate the airwaves with one message - we are terrorist loving traitors who want to kill god and let gays bang their kids. Its time to smell the coffee guys, we blew it. We need to learn from our enemies.

This is no longer win-lose politics in this country. These media techniques grew out of psy-op warfare research during the Cold War. Its meant to do the same thing to the Democrats that it was designed to do to the Russians- destroy us. They are going to smash us into three ineffective parties and rule America as a One Party State. Time to WAKE UP! Instead of obsessing on the ballot situation, we need to ask ourselves how we are going to build a media machine to counter this. They've also taken over CNN, MSNBC, via the boardroom. Those once friendly media outlets don't have the overt partisanship of Fox News, but they have turned into back stabbing bastards - the Sunday before the election, Tim Russet's Meet the Press savaged Kerry brutally and unfairly, running Swift Boat Ads as "news items". He did the exact same thing to Gore in 2000. If you follow mediamatters.org, you'll see all the mainstream media fucked us for some reason. We need to start recognizing that as part of the new reality too. Like the Repugs, we need to find some type of mass media to dominate and control.

If we don't get more organized and figure a way to get our message out in this new mass media environemnt of the Internet age, we are dead. First thing we need to start with is this website. There are so many threads and they are so poorly organized - hell it looks the Democratic Party - that it is incoherant. What a coincidence. Unlike the person who started this thread, I am not going to bed feeling better about things. If we don't wake up, we are screwed.

I also want to take a sec to strongly advocate that we do everything possible to put Dean in charge of the party. He is the one person who has an Internet age vision of how this party should work, and it is something his organization did a superb job of in his otherwise flawed campaign. Putting him in charge has nothing to do with his politics or viewpoints - I advocate it strictly because in the time I volunteered for his campaign I recognized they had tremendous skills in these areas, and man, we are going to need just those skills. We need to dominate the Internet the way the Repugs dominate AM radio. It is our only hope. I hope all of you realize what an utter disaster this election was for us and the huge task we have before us, and how if you really love your country you will give it all you got to change the entire direction of this party. We need to become organized, and cut back on the outrage and start thinking clearly. I fear this vote fraud thing will go nowhere. Our house has burned down, and only we can build another one.