A Holiday for Voting!

I was pushing for this in 2001 – We need to either change the election day or make it a holiday. Several reasons:
1. We will gain about 3% of the vote
2. It’s a vote getter on both sides of the fence
3. It’s a vote getter on all sides of age demographics
4. It’s very appealing to Blue Collar voters which the Republicans have increasingly been stealing away.
5. There is no downside – none.

Along side the above, I was also pushing for several other things, some of which will - unfortunately - have so much less impact than they would have had:

• I would call for huge increases in the penalties for Identity Theft. This would have resonated very well with all demographics, and it still will, but in four years it way have been dealt with fairly well.
  
• I would have tied those increases in penalties with decreases in penalties for victimless crimes (such as possession of personal use drugs) – and I would have constantly brought up fiscal responsibility with this. Tying these together would have made it very hard for the Republicans to bandwagon, while at the same time many Republican voters would see it as reasonable and timely.
  

Lastly - I was trying to formulate a law of statistical balance that basically said:

• There will be a direct correlation between the teacher/student ratio and the prisoner/inmate ratio.
  How to make that correlation was not an easy matter, but somehow bringing up our prison state and the absurd imbalance we see in what we spend and how we spend it – and on whom we spend it would still be a great way to show clarity of thinking in the right areas and how to finance our thinking. Given todays terrorist activity, it would have shown fiscally resposible foresight into the future cost of more inmates because of those we capture from anti-terrorist efforts.

Democrats have the opportunity to become the fiscally responsible party – god forbid they actually step up to the plate.

Democrats also have the opportunity to show themselves as the best leaders in World Security and Terrorist situations. We decided to skip that opportunity by not going in the direction Bill Clinton advised, and having General Wes Clark as our winning presidential nominee, with all of the enormous sucess in his campaigns abroad.

So what's with all this anti-christian stuff?

I am writing this to assure you that I do not have anything against Christians or people of “Faith based” religions per se. I do however have a problem with devolution. If the current inertia is allowed to continue, there should be a real fear for what is to come.

Our spiritual growth as a humanity has been slowly moving forward. It is in part due to many of the religions that I seem to condemn. We no longer have much Animism, and there has been a real drop in Cannibalism – though millions still practice ritual cannibalism openly throughout the world every week.

As we have evolved we have occasionally had those times, usually several centuries, where for some reason we give too much free rein to religious rightists and everything goes wrong. Suddenly we find ourselves burning our libraries, fearing our neighbors, hating our differences and being ashamed of our bodies and all the natural tendencies that come with them.

The time is at hand wherein we have reached a crossroads – a brink of inertia that must be stopped with a Mac Truck!

Pope John Paul II is on the fast track to become a Nobel Peace Prize winner. Here is a man that has presided over 30 years of increasing perversion within his church. He has actively participated in the denial, hiding and spinning of the problem. Thousands of children in our nation have been molested by those of all ranks in his charge and thousands upon thousands more in countries all over the world.
Pope John Paul II has actively – actually he has spearheaded, the campaign to spread disease and death with his anti-condom policies – he has done NOTHING to ask those in his charge to stop spreading clear misconceptions about the efficacy and use of condoms. Millions of people have died because of his firm and unbending stupidity and yet he is up for a Peace Prize!

If Democrats continue to say nothing in the face of such utterly disgusting and immoral behavior – If we continue to allow these self appointed “vanguards” of morality no real test of what that means – If we continue to give out our icons a glory they so heartily do not deserve – then suddenly we will wake up one day and discover that they are not just our false hero’s, they are running the place. When they are running the place it will become even more of a brainwashing facility than we are seeing today.

How is it that in the United States of America we cannot get good news without digging for it?
Why are so many people so afraid?
What in hell has happened to the Democrats?
Why are the Republicans embracing someone that is so reckless and nearsighted?
Why are so many Americans embracing the very religious values that lead to terrorism?

The Brainwashing that is going on is incredible – how resistant are you to what you are reading here? Probably very resistant – it may be that I am a very poor writer, but it also has to do with the line of bullshit you were fed from your parents and ministers. Truth never was the goal – NEVER!
Protection , and pre-emption was always the goal. The brainwashing has taken over the brainwashers and the deed is done – most people inherit their beliefs – do we as a nation of primarily Christians question the validity of Christianity? HELL NO! Yet it is so utterly questionable.

My point is not to argue the validity of Christianity here, though I would be more than happy to enter into a dialogue about it. I do not support or deny it’s validity – but I do believe most people make liberal assumptions regarding it’s validity.

Democrats need to pair down this unwarranted enthusiasm for all things “God is a big part of my life”. We do not need to prove to the Godless rightists that we have god in our lives. We live and breathe a world view that trumps every fiber of their beliefs into the sewer.
Republicans believe in Death Technology:
1. “Don’t fix it until we are sued enough to make it impossible to do otherwise”
2. “Make laws wherever you can that make effective lawsuits very hard to bring about”
3. “Deny that it is a problem until it is undeniable”
4. “Once it becomes an obvious problem, make big pronouncements in favor of doing something, and then under-fund everything you are “doing about it”.
This scum is our moral voice? From the sticks of Middle American mind we are finding our leadership?

America has two hearts – they are the East & West Coasts – Two hearts that beat as one. We are the bringers of change, evolution, invention and society (as well as the vast majority of the money).
We should not apologize and prove ourselves for the swine of sentimental inaccuracies. 30 years ago we had a world of hippies changing the world – it’s interesting to find that in reality they had pretty much everything right!
From their (our) teaching about food, Women, the environment, love and religion, a war has been waged against what they have re-found for us, and that war is at it’s peak right now. Democrats have everything to be proud of and the Republicans have everything at sake for us to forget ourselves. We must not forget ourselves and we must not allow this religiosity to pave over our real human triumphs in self-awareness and wholesomeness. The Beatles, as it turns out, were not Satan's children after all.

Democrats must understand that we need to put the religious rightists in their place. If we do not, we will see our courts inundated with them and they will be there with the blessings of the public. We have absolutly no time to waste!