I don't know where you live, but I live in Texas. I have, for the last about four years, written an average of three letters a week to my government representatives. Almost without fail, the responses I get back (when they bother to reply at all), come in a very condescending, pat-the-ignorant-idiot-on-the-head type response that amounts to little more than "now now you stupid little liberal, you just don't worry your pretty little head about all this complicated government stuff, and let us godly folk run the country as the Bible dictated it best".
I'm not trying to absolve myself of blame, but on CNN *today* (http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/11/05/voting.problems.ap/index.html) there is a story that in addition to the 300 or so votes Bush recieved in a particular precinct in Ohio, there were an ADDITIONAL NEARLY 4000 VOTES GRANTED TO HIM. The entire precinct only *had* 638 votes! How in the hell did he get 4000+ votes in a precinct that didn't even have 4000 *people*??? Answer, he didn't...because they used the electronic voting machines, that I protested, that thousands of OTHER people protested, that organizations legally protested, that they were sued to keep from using because of their inaccuracies...and the lawsuits were thrown out of court, by Republican judges.
As I said, I live in Texas, and I'm surrounded by these people (http://moose-and-squirrel.com/bozo/bozo.html)...the absolute *worst* "Christianity" has to offer. I have seen a woman fire her housekeeper, a single woman with a disabled daughter, and no other means of income, for not being Christian./ With my own eyes.
The reality of the matter is, these people fully believe that they are the most persecuted people on the planet. And they take the reality and distort that to their own views (http://writ.news.findlaw.com/dean/20041105.html), George W. Bush included...or perhaps, especially.
Now, while I will grant you that the left, especially here in Dallas, did a piss-poor job of reaching out to people, if you tell me I can't absolve myself of responsibility for the "elected" officials, even though I worked very hard this past two years to get them out of office, you damned sure can't absolve yourself if you voted for them.
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Date: 2004-11-06 11:12 pm (UTC)I'm not trying to absolve myself of blame, but on CNN *today* (http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/11/05/voting.problems.ap/index.html) there is a story that in addition to the 300 or so votes Bush recieved in a particular precinct in Ohio, there were an ADDITIONAL NEARLY 4000 VOTES GRANTED TO HIM. The entire precinct only *had* 638 votes! How in the hell did he get 4000+ votes in a precinct that didn't even have 4000 *people*??? Answer, he didn't...because they used the electronic voting machines, that I protested, that thousands of OTHER people protested, that organizations legally protested, that they were sued to keep from using because of their inaccuracies...and the lawsuits were thrown out of court, by Republican judges.
As I said, I live in Texas, and I'm surrounded by these people (http://moose-and-squirrel.com/bozo/bozo.html)...the absolute *worst* "Christianity" has to offer. I have seen a woman fire her housekeeper, a single woman with a disabled daughter, and no other means of income, for not being Christian./ With my own eyes.
The reality of the matter is, these people fully believe that they are the most persecuted people on the planet. And they take the reality and distort that to their own views (http://writ.news.findlaw.com/dean/20041105.html), George W. Bush included...or perhaps, especially.
Now, while I will grant you that the left, especially here in Dallas, did a piss-poor job of reaching out to people, if you tell me I can't absolve myself of responsibility for the "elected" officials, even though I worked very hard this past two years to get them out of office, you damned sure can't absolve yourself if you voted for them.