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In reply to the discussion: Stick a fork in US - we're done. [View all]

genwah

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5. Money, and the media that money buys are always with us. We are headed into French Revolution
Sun Mar 30, 2014, 01:27 PM
Mar 2014

political territory, which I'm not in favor of.

You're pissed, and I get that. I'm pissed off, too. And I have no money. The Koch brothers, the Wall street barons, against the flood of begging e-mails I get from deserving candidates being outspent. That pisses me off big time. But I'm only me, with a car old enough to vote, and I can sleep in my car and volunteer. Putting boots on the ground is an amazingly cathartic experience, espeically when I'm in a pair of those boots. (Actually, sneakers I bought too cheaply.)

Yes, there's money, and broadcast money, and now, the Koch brothers are starting field offices to put their own boots on the ground. It's a losing game, but do you want to win, or do you want to fight? From a discussion I haven't published yet.

More importantly, WHO ARE YOU? Are you someone who is going to sit around the Generic-Progressive-Web-Based-Circle-Jerk about who we are supposed ro like or not like? Or are you someone who says, "Yeah, motherfucker, I'll put you in office, and you toe the line or you're gonna be so out of office, SO FAST that Fox "news" isn't going to find out how to hire you for two weeks!"


There's money, and there's boots on the ground. The French Revolutionaries had no money, no media support, just boots on the ground. I'd really rather not see that happen around here. So, I'm left with; "Who are you? Where are you? what races are coming up for you on November? Are there people you want to see in November having primaries, like, NOW?

What are you going to do, Stonepounder, to GOTV in November?

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