Cheney Resorts to Tactics Used in Nazi Germany
If Kerry were elected, Cheney said the nation risks falling back into a "pre-9/11 mind-set" that terrorist attacks are criminal acts that require a reactive approach. Instead, he said Bush's offensive approach works to root out terrorists where they plan and train, and pressure countries that harbor terrorists.
WHAT THE FUCK?! Who the fuck are these people? So, let me get this straight: if I don't vote for Bush, I'm basically inviting upon myself the pre-9/11 years . . . the years of the greatest peace and prosperity this country has ever seen . . . the years that I'll fondly remember. And, if I do vote for Bush, I get more fear and hate-mongering that I can expect from the Right, right?
Perhaps it's not that simplistic. However, the one thing that is clear, is that if I vote for Bush, there are a few things that I can count on: the most divided country I've ever seen; a country that is constantly being reminded that we're at war and that we should be fearful (isn't that in some way terrorism?); we will continue to live in a country that is being "led" to conflict with our allies; we will be ever more polarized and divided by class; the rich will certainly get richer -- and the poor will get poorer, but there will be more of them; my taxes will continue to get spent on people who don't live within our borders -- and spent on those people by way of dropping bombs on them.
A vote for John Kerry seems to be a vote for someone who is willing to do the whole job or combating the problems that plague not only
our country but
every country. This can't be done with bombs and nonsensical
Christian Right wacko propaganda, this has to be done with a mind not towards wiping out a group of people, but to making it impossible for them to find sympathy with anyone. That requires a tenacity and focus that the Right doesn't have. The left is interested, not in negotiation, but in creating a climate where terrorism has no need to exist. In a world where people are fed, where they have access to justice, where they have access to education, where they have things that are valuable that they can lose. In a world where the stakes are larger than living to see another day, the values change.
The right has no interest in creating that world. They are our emotional and irrational side; They want blood and guts (not on TV of course); they want to see people physically pay, just as terrorists want to see us physically pay for whatever it is that 3,000 innocent people did; they want black and white -- incendentally so do the terrorists; They want the middle class to pay for it (certainly not the oil companies, commodities, and energy traders that will benefit the most from a safe autocratic Middle East); They have contempt ofr poor and religious people because they think the vote only on single issues; they have contempt for the American political process because they think that it is their birthright to be in power; they don't believe in democracy because if they did, they wouldn't
THREATEN YOU IF YOU VOTED FOR ANYONE ELSE. Republicans are bullies who have now engaged in the worst kind of voter intimidation.
It is the policy that militarism can solve all our problems that has brought us to the brink like this. This administration doesn't understand what it's like to die in a war because none of them have ever seen combat (except Colin Powell and he's the only one who has EVER expressed reservations). It is the policies of the neo-concervatives that steer the policies of this administration that make for an endless cycle of violence . . . If you don't beleive me, look at India and Pakistan. Look at Israel and Palestine. There are so many examples it never ends. The only way to stop the cycle is to be man enough to say that there has to be another way. If your enemy is unreasonable, then you should be able to show everyone that, right? If no one believes you, maybe your being unreasonable?
