No right is more precious in a free country than that of having a voice in the election of those who make the laws under which, as good citizens, we must live. Other rights, even the most basic, are illusory if the right to vote is undermined.
- US Supreme Court

Friday, May 9, 2008

time to split the party

Those who are anywhere near WV, KY, OR might want to start campaigning for Obama.

Yes - people need to be made aware. Obama going to lead our nation out of its fallen state, but there are still way too many voters who don't understand crucial details about what that means.

People think he isn't clear on his issues, on what he believes. I said that myself, but I was wrong. He is telling us exactly what he believes, and what he intends to do. People need to understand his message properly. It is the difference between those who have the epiphany vs. those who remain clueless.

Democrats before Obama recognized that there is in fact something to be angry about, but we thought it was Bush and his Republican friends. Not so. We need to point our anger at the real cause of America's problems. That's what Obama is here to teach us.

He has already successfully redirected all our anger away from his financial backers in Washington, away from the Republicans, toward the real cause of the problem, which isn't the the current ruling class and isn't Republican. In fact, when it comes to the current ruling class, and Republicans, and Wall Street - with them we are supposed to want unity.

He has told us exactly what he promises. A new Democratic party will be a new America.

1. we must recognize the true nature of the problem
It isn't the government, and it isn't the conservatives. It is the Democratic party that needs changing. It is full of typical white garlic-nosed racists who have refused to recognize the Messiah because they are full of antipathy.

We will right the wrongs of the past and make ourselves new and pure and clean in what will hopefully be a merely metaphorical ritual. The party will unify culturally - and purge those who refuse this unity.

2. we must ignore - refuse to recognize - the conflict between the corporations and the labor vote
We will see Obama take on the corporations, too - he'll put them in their place by giving them everything they want. He's already started, with promises to privatize social security and gut universal health care (no mandate = sabotage).

Obama is socially liberal, but financially he talks like a Republican, and he's got nothing but praise for Reagan. So let's not call it "Republican", no matter who his advisors are. Let's just call it "reform". Or maybe "accepting the inevitable". Economically nothing is going to change, no matter who wins the election. It is time to assimilate. Resistance is futile.

The one thing Obama doesn't get into much detail about is exactly how he intends to champion the poor, especially given how wholly he seems to have embraced the idea of tax breaks as a cure-all. But it's clear that it won't be any solution that hurts corporations - if one accepts Republican assumptions, then clearly anything that hurts corporate America is bad for the economy. The conservative worldview is quite clear: poor people are a drain on the economy and a burden to the nation, and it's time to recognize that Malthus was right.

And isn't it lucky coincidence that those who oppose that thinking, just coincidentally, are going the be the same ones who are going to be the targets of that sacrificial purge that cleansed us all.

A minor detail, for those who don't have a trust fund to rely on - but who cares about that? Just think of how many Republicans would vote Democrat, if Democrat meant exactly like Republican only without all that churchy crap. And now they'll be able to. We'll have our choice of which Republican party we'd like to belong to. That's why the "new Democratic coalition" can afford to get rid of all the "old coalition" baggage.

So we need to get out the message - what Obama really stands for. I am sure once people realize what is really going on, they will understand Obama much better than people do now.