Reply #47: The Republicon "message" has been an artificial thing all along--

[Peace Patriot]

concocted by fascist "think tanks" and the war profiteering corporate news monopolies as a plausible narrative for stolen elections. They have never wanted to convince us of anything. They have only wanted to FOOL us into believing that we are not the majority, long enough to steal us blind.

It has been a massive con game.

The great progressive American majority is still here. It has never been not here. It is us--the believers in democracy and social justice and a peaceful world. And if you pay attention to opinion and issue polls, from a broad range of sources, on a broad range of issues, over several years time--as well as other indicators--you find overwhelming evidence that this is true. My two favorite stats are these: 56% of the American people opposed the Iraq war from the beginning, Feb. '03, before the invasion, and before Colin Powell's 100% pack of lies to the UN was fully exposed. They didn't trust Bush, and didn't see the need for a war, way back then. And, 63% of the American people oppose torture "under any circumstances" (May '04).

You will find many stats like this--in fact, an overwhelming case for the progressive values and common sense of the great majority of Americans.

The Republicon "message" of fear (gimme your money), militarism (gimme your money), "family values" (gimme you money), "God and country" (gimme your money). intolerance (gimme your money), hatred (gimme your money), kill for corporate oil (gimme your money and your life), deteriorates, like the "wicked witch of the west," with just a splash of water, and melts into nothing. All it means is GIMME YOUR MONEY. There is nothing else there. It is an artificial concoction of the least democratic and the least beneficial ideas ever promulgated by the strangest people among us, and the rich fascist powermongers among us: pro-war, anti-women, anti-immigrant, anti-gay, Jesus used as an ikon for killing and torturing Arabs, the president as bully and emperor, and on and on.

My favorite of all of them is one touted by the rightwing 'christian' Chalcedon foundation: the death penalty for homosexuals. Now you may consider this to be truly strange, obsessive and anti-democratic. And it is. But get this: The same rightwing billionaire who gave a million dollars to the Chalcedon foundation was ALSO the initial funder for the electronic voting corporation ES&S, brethren to Diebold. These two corporations "counted" 80% of the votes in 2004, using electronic voting machines and central tabulators that had been fast-tracked across the country by a $3.9 billion e-voting boondoggle appropriated by the Anthrax Congress, and engineered by Tom Delay and Bob Ney (abetted by corporatist/war Democrats like Christopher Dodd). Voting machines and central tabulators run on 'TRADE SECRET,' PROPRIETARY programming code, owned and controlled by these Bushcon corporations, with virtually no audit/recount controls.

That's how this weirdness has been infused into our political system, and made to look "mainstream." But it never was the mainstream of the American people, and never will be. The mainstream of the American people is tolerance, fairness and justice. Ask almost anybody--except this weird minority of monarchists and haters, who have been with us since the 5th century (when the real Christian movement--which was communal and egalitarian--went way wrong). They are always angling for power over the rest of us, and when they get allies like the current Global Corporate Predators who have seized the White House, with its military and police powers, they can be extremely dangerous. These are the people who burn witches at the stake, who rule by torture and repression, and who send tens of thousands off to rape and pillage the length of Europe in the name of Christ, to "liberate" Jerusalem. They are a minority. And they will never be anything else. They cannot gain power in a free society except by corruption, deception and collusion.

And they are not "conservative." They are extreme fascist radicals. The death penalty for homosexuals. I kid you not. That's the sort of people who have been "counting" our votes under a veil of corporate secrecy.

The Republicon "message" is merely a feasible-sounding narrative--which draws upon these horrid tendencies of a tiny minority--to cover up massive theft of money and power. It may USE the psychotic energy of the few "true believers"--to spice up the narrative, and scare the piss out of the rest of us--but it is, essentially, an empty sack. George Bush, Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, Alberto Gonzales and their "pod people" in Congress, and their pals at Exxon-Mobile and Halliburton, and the five rightwing billionaire CEOs who now control all our public airwaves and newspapers, have only one belief--their belief in money, and their "right" to have it all. Scratch the surface, and that is their entire "message." Shine just a bit of light on them, and it becomes very apparent why it is so hard to "sell."