Friday we can make a statement felt across this nation.

Mortos

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Wed Nov-03-04 03:05 PM
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Friday we can make a statement felt across this nation.

I am devastated by this loss. I live in Oklahoma. We lost the senate race, overwhelmingly voted to assign gay people second class status, and voted to re-elect George W. Bush. I am representative of millions of my fellow Americans who did not and will not support this fucked up administration.

I am not going to attack Kerry or hold it against him. America has spoken and this is their choice. My first response was fuck America! Fuck these hateful homophobic, racist, evangelical people. We deserve the government we get and now we will reap the whirlwind for what we have sown. I was ready to leave this country. A country I have served in uniform. A country I once loved and had great hopes for. I still love America but I am sorely disappointed in the majority of her people.

But slowly, a plan is forming in my mind. We can't sit back and let the hopelessness of this situation overwhelm us. We can't give up on our democracy. We will not be marginalized by a razor thin majority who thinks we are less than they; less moral, less patriotic, less valuable.

We are an integral part of this society and we can change it in the next four years.

Here is how:

Part one of this plan is to show this country our intrinsic value. We make up half of this country. We overwhelmingly make up the work force, the middle and lower classes. We are the grunts who make this country's economy function. We are the plumbers, mechanics, retail workers, nurses, teachers, union workers, state, city and federal employees. We are the backbone of this country and we can shut it down.

I have been told by conservatives that we are not Americans. We are not important and we should all leave this country if we don't like it. Some have said we should be forced out as we are traitorous and unpatriotic. You are with us or against us.

Well, let's see how fulfilling their wish would affect this country. I am calling for a nationwide sick out. Let's see how well America functions for one day without the hard work of democrats, moderates and liberals.

Friday is the day. Call in sick. Don't go to work. We are going to use Blue Flu to make a one day point. If we could get just 1/2 of one percent of the people who voted against Bush to take a sick day we could show America and conservatives how fucked they would be without us.

I hope DU members will support this idea by spreading it out across the net and doing it themselves. One day of sacrifice to make a point is not too much to ask.

I like the old saying, "You don't know what you have got until it's gone." On Friday, America could learn the true value of hard work and common Americans but only if we make it happen.

If you can't take a day off work, how about a national boycott of all retail establishments. No fast food. No gas. No shopping. Buy nothing from the corporate entities that are truly running our country.

What do you say DU? Are you up for some economic disobedience.

That is part one of my two part plan. Part two is much more detailed and complex but if it is initiated in the next four years, we can and will take our country back definitively, decisively and without any question.

Stay tuned DU. Don't give up. Don't give in.

p.s. to the Freepers: Fuck you all. Stay out of our faces because we will kick your ass. You are cowards and liars. You won by hurting our country and now you will reap the destruction you have enabled. I am not crying. I am plotting your obsolescence.. Again, fuck you all.