November 3rd Theses

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This makes me mad. Have you read this? Some truth yes, but . . .

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Published on Friday, November 12, 2004 by CommonDreams.org
November 3rd Theses
by Adam Werbach


If you're like me, the results of this election opened your eyes to the extent to which the leadership of the Democratic Party is mismanaging our political future. At some point, people like you and me have to get together and communicate these profound misgivings.

We worked hard. We got out the vote. And we still lost by four million votes.

Yes it was close. Yes, we didn't have the best candidate. Yes, the campaign made serious tactical errors.

But the bottom line is this: the Democratic Party is today in the hands of people who have failed to articulate a moral-intellectual vision for America and the world, and you can't win the confidence of the electorate without a vision.

I feel complicit in these failures. I have spent the last 15 years of my life trying to organize the public towards social and environmental change. It's not working.

SNIP

Go to the following to read the theses:

http://www.commondreams.org/views04/1112-34.htm

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1. GRRRRRRRR

[savetheuniverse]

2. does this help ?

The notion of an honest election is predicated on the belief that most Americans are either ignorant, indifferent or complete idiots. Call it denial, call it wishful thinking on my part, but, as an American citizen, it’s harder for me to believe that 60 million Americans are out of touch enough to have put Bush back in office than it is to believe a medium-sized bushel of crooks has stolen the election. The election was declared a done deal before a thorough investigation had been conducted into allegations of voter fraud, and it isn’t really over until the electoral college is seated on December 12. The mainstream media is suppressing the “votergate” story that is spreading like wildfire on the internet; where it is getting coverage, the charges are being dismissed as “internet conspiracy theories.” Is this the “urban legend du jour” or might many millions of people be “on to” something? 

I am “reality-based” enough to believe that perhaps 40 million hapless souls were bamboozled by a President who pretends to be a “man of the people,” a “populist” whose egregious language skills endear him to anyone who’s ever experienced the anxiety of having to pass a standardized language, geography, math or civics test in the public school system in this country, but who nevertheless struts around in $3,000 suits meticulously hand-sewn by an Italian tailor in Washington, and who is in reality a millionaire oil-magnate. The Bush-Cheney Machine has perfected the art of propaganda and probably succeeded in persuading 40 million voters. But the difference between 40 and 60 million is significant, especially when, according to the preliminary results, the discrepancy involves about 3.5 million. Millions believe the results are rigged: that alone must be cause for extensive investigation, if not a total annulment of the election and a call for a “re-run”. 


Election Results Challenge Our Faith in America and its People
http://www.opednews.com/friedberg_111104_america.htm

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4. Good one. WE WON. Now all we have to do is PROVE it!

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3. you can't win the confidence of the electorate without a vision

You can't win with rigged voting machines either.
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