Reply #291: Anyone who voted for GWB

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has completely alienated me, and likely at least 50,000 fellow DUers. We worry way too much what the right thinks of us, and WAY too much about being politically correct, regardless of which message we want to convey. Why do we allow the Repukes to do most of the framing of the debates on issues in this country?

DU is home to MANY different religious groups, different economic backgrounds, different races, different colors, different philosophies, different and varying amounts of intelligence AND education, and moreover, we are more and more the party of inclusion.

Repukes don't like the fact that many minority groups will side with Democrats, not because they want their votes, but because a very large part of the right is filled with bigotry, intolerance and a sense of superiority. The right also has far more people who are as selfish as one can possibly be, and egocentric and self-absorbed yuppies (or former yuppies) who have nothing but disdain for anything we do, even to the point of calling us weaklings because we express concern and compassion for many who can't speak for themselves.

The right took up the anti-choice stance a long time ago. Yes--anti-choice. I will NEVER consider their tripe as being pro-life, because they aren't, and never have been. The majority of those on the right who are anti-choice chose one element to pull out and show off at every possible opportunity their "concern" and their hypocritical offensive to take that "choice" away from us. It is far, far better for us to look at their stance and crash their straw man arguments to the ground--pummeling them for being anti-choice, and use the opportunity to go on the offensive, instead of trying to defending our position. Get THEM into a defensive position and keep after THEM for having the more derisive of the two parties.

WE, as Democrats, liberals, Green party members, and anyone left of centre need to STOP APOLOGIZING. We're not in the wrong. We're in the place we need to be. THEY are in the wrong: wrong on choice, wrong on a secular government, wrong on promoting their radical religious beliefs and getting into our faces in that arena, wrong on just about EVERY SINGLE ISSUE and DEBATE in this country.

Why are we letting them take away our rights? Why are we letting them stay on the offensive, while we supposedly defend a "weaker" position? NO! Not anymore. I have said it before, but we need to go on the attack. WE need to attack them for their screwed up positions and beliefs, and WE need to show that not only are we far more worthy of being in charge, but that we would be the RESPONSIBLE party in charge.

No more framing the debate on abortion as whether their stance is right and ours is wrong. No more: the connotations alone of pro-choice or "pro-life" have got to give way to a new paradigm, and a new way of looking at the whole issue--we are PRO-CHOICE and they are ANTI-CHOICE. And they, by the way, are also PRO-DEATH, NOT pro-life. Regardless of whether we're talking babies or adults, they're in favor of the death penalty which on the grander scale shows that they are hypocritical assholes who talk out of both sides of their mouths.

I really don't give a shit anymore about what the "right" thinks of me and my positions, and I know a lot more people here at DU have reached that same point. We are NOT repuke light. We are a recognizable political body that respects the opinions of all who make up our party, that has not only responsibility and compassion for ALL members of our party, that wants to make sure that some activities of the people in this country are not subjected to governmental "approval" and has, at its heart, a finer and more mature outlook on the way of the world. THEY, on the other hand, want to take subjects like sex, homosexual relationships, women's health issues, and other such activities and stifle them all by making them all illegal and or regulated. What the FUCK is wrong with them? I don't honestly know. But they DO need to be attacked, and we must NOT let up on the offensive. There are too many people out there that are as ignorant as a cockroach, and they are being controlled by the right because we have never taken up the cause we need to take up. They consider this the holy crusade of their lifetimes--we must make it anything BUT a "holy" crusade.

There is nothing fair in this world and there never will be. But I'll be damned if I let the right control me in any way, regardless of any other relevant issue in the meantime. The best defense we can mount now is a strong offense. And hell be damned to any repuke who stands in our way!