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People don't really get out to vote for local and state offices and that's almost impossibleto change. Further, and let's be honest here, regardless of the state you are in or the guy you support, I suspect most people feel their local guys are about the last people to get excited about. I suspect most folks view all of them as completely corrupt self-serving douchebags, and for good reason.
You want to change Texas or any state, you need a national party and platform worth voting FOR. It also helps to have an opposition party worth voting against.
Obama won because Bush was a freaking disaster, yes, but also because he promised to fight for a laundry list of significant changes. And within a week of taking office he was abandoning both the promises and the people who voted for him. He didn't fight for shit, he fought against his own voters. He became Bush III. And sure, the GOP grabbed the ball and sprinted to the social con right, but then what else do expect, and Obama is right there with them, running a single pace behind and yelling for them to let him catch up.
Let's review.
A vote for Obama and the Washington Democrats is a vote for more war, it is a vote against civil liberties, a vote in favor of patriot and all the other unnamed police state policies and agencies, it is a vote supporting torture, a vote supporting tax cuts for the wealthy and tax hikes for the poor, it is a vote for corporate welfare, a vote against single payer healthcare. It is a vote in favor of looting the rotting corpse ofthis country and giving it straight to the banksters and mega-corps. It is a vote in support of BP, and banning the press from the gulf; a vote in favor of sending the police after private citizens who visit their own fucking beaches to photograph the carnage. It is a vote in favor of telling our nation's poor that they shoud skip eating so that they can instead give their money to fucking insurance companies, and if they insist on feeding their kids rather than handing over their money then the fucking government will come after them.
It is a vote against everything that progressives claim they stand for.
So how in the hell do you plan to get people excited? Woo Hoo, we killed Bin Ladin? Woo Hoo we are bombing Libya? Woo Hoo gas and unemplyment and the debt are all sky high but you can maybe get a job polishing Rush Limbaugh's new 747 or maybe McDonalds as a Fry Guy? Woo Hoo, we're just like Republicans only without all that Jesus stuff.
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