Time to Take The Gloves Off

[adigal]

People much wiser than I had the following to say; my comments follow:

"When in the course of watching TV, it becomes obvious that one people have dissolved the political bands which have connected with another, and assumed the powers of the earth, they should be listened to when they declare the causes which impel them to the separation.

That all persons are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator, or nature, with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness without being called unAmerican. That, to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their powers from the consent of the governed, and that whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it, and to institute new government, laying its foundation on such principles, and orgainzing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness.

Prudence, indeed, will dictate that governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shown that mankind are ore disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same object, evinces a design to reduce them under absolute despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such government, and to provide new guards for their future security."

As an ex-Republican, who has watched the Democrats flounder around for the last 2 years, I say it is time to take the gloves off. You all are too goddamn nice. You need to throw some tea into the harbor, you need to call you wingnut friends crazy to their faces, I have spoken to so many liberals who are not even reading the news anymore because they cannot stand it.

We, the people, need to get a backbone. We, the people, need to determine a day that we are going to march, en masse, and demand that the spying on us stops, that people like Senator Brownback, theocrat that he is, stop making policy for our nation, that the religious right back the hell off, because we are mad as hell, and not going to take it anymore. We, the people, need to demand that the characterization of 60% of us who disagree with this administration as unpatriotic, stop right now. We the people need to get a clue and realize that the chance of us working this out with the wingnuts in our nation is very slim, and start thinking of a way to resolve our differences. We the people need to face the facts and the hatred being thrown our way, and fight back.

[LWolf]

1. I disagree somewhat.

I have a backbone. A stouter spine, apparently, than the rest of the nation who cowered in fear on and after 9/11 and allowed it to become an excuse for all of the ensuing atrocities.

I agree with this part:

start thinking of a way to resolve our differences. We the people need to face the facts and the hatred being thrown our way,

I don't agree that with some of the methods suggested, though. I don't need to get "mad as hell." Flailing about in fury doesn't change anything except for the state of my health.

I don't need to "fight back." I think that perpetuates the conflict, rather than resolving it.

I don't think I'm "too goddamned nice." I think I'm a person with empathy, integrity, and courage.

I do agree with the rest, though.