We are at war. You can pretend we can be one country again, but we can't.

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69. No, we instead must fight the enemy, not ourselves.

(Man o man am I about to jump into hellfire here, knowing I do so against many fellow DUers I have long admired! Hope it's not my meds talking! Damn......guess there is nothing for it master Frodo, on we go.)


The corporatiststs as we can plainly see outspend the left by perhaps insurmountable amounts. Should mitt rob-me get the White House it will be because of that money. These people who are investing millions and likely billions do not do so because they think there is a chance they might win. They go into this KNOWING that they will win and they expect their wishes to be carried out by those they are purchasing. Do you think we can go toe to toe with these guys financially in this election? Hell China alone can outspend us on the left if it so chooses...and it likely will be heavily involved in our election, financially. What about all the other nations who want to financially influence our elections? Add in foreign corporations and foreign billionaires with religious craziness and add in American billionaires heavily influenced by John Birch...

Look around, Wisconsin proved that we on the left do not have the financial wherewithal to compete in this war. Go back in time and inject "mad as hell" into the equation, it won't change squat! The ONLY thing I see that still scares the hell out of these big money spenders is our vote. If this was not true then why are they spending all that money trying to influence how we vote? Why are they trying to disenfranchise so many of us out of our vote? An awakened sleeping giant scares the hell out of these guys. Cut that giant in half add in disenfranchisement and slick advertisements and a repeat of Wisconsin happens on a much larger scale come November.

I hate the stupidity of the right just as much as the next guy here, we already know that they hate us. That said, would you fight in a foxhole with a knuckle dragging freeper against a foreign invader should it come to that? I'm betting you would. I'm betting most here would. We are not at war with the freepers instead we are at war with the corporatists who influence them.

You say we can not get back together again, we were even further apart during the Civil War. It took awhile, but for most of the nation we were back together by WWII. Personally I would like to see us start putting things back together before we have to go through Civil War II. Might be a whole lot less bloody.

We are indeed at war, our enemy is a hostile corporate takeover of our government. Things keep looking more and more dire. Many here, some I can not argue against say we have already lost! I say that it is time to look at that freeper in the foxhole with you, the one pointing his gun at you, and find some fucking way to engage in dialog. I ain't got all the answers but I can not see We the People win back our democracy without a full and united effort. Going at this half assed has gotten us exactly where we are-on the very verge of maybe losing it all and worse, perhaps even another civil war.

It may not be too late to pick our enemies and to remember that a common enemy united us once before. An old common enemy is currently kicking We The Peoples asses!