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I think if thoughtful Democrats go to the effort to think over some of these issues and think of them from different angles, they will realize that of the many levels of things going on here, this may be leading to a new era. Several things are starting to come together and rearrange in the world, and if we can get ourselves organized, as for example, Howard Dean is doing, things can finally start to turn our way again. The clues have been here on this website lately; several ongoing things that could be issues favoring us.
One part of this is that the Republican-invented alliance--so their neocon cabal could hide amongst it and enact their real agenda--has now started to totally break down, and where now, having failed and with no real popular support, it can only fade away. How will the conservative Christians react as they realize more and more that Bush and the other Oil Execs never had any intention of addressing any of their concerns, and never will? We should mention this, often. Part of the ordinary Christian's concern--the violent vulgarity of corporate media pseudo-culture, for example--is shared by everyone from feminists to corporate media critics, and could be a place of agreement. This would place us all against the corporate world, and Bush's crowd. We should find common ground where we can, and encourage division among the Repub pseudo-alliance where we can't. Most Christians are just as nervous about fundamentalism as non-religious people are, and we should restore the once commonplace distinction between the groups.
This is a new world, and we should not, and do not need to, present our own religiosity--if we have it--as some old '50s Republican stereotype of normality and conformity. The true ways of reaching a spiritual path are long, deep and complicated, and are not only more interesting than the phony spectacle of George "Gimme Gimme Booze Cocaine Money" Bush and the other "through the eye of a needle" hypocrites, but is almost always well-received by listeners. People are not given enough credit for how accepting they can be. Democrats who are not religious should learn the difference between a sincere person seeking the meaning of things, and a liar exploiting symbolism or quotations as props. This is a lot of where our moral persuasion is, and we are losing a lot by not unifying the constituent groups of our party. Attacks on websites such as this against Christians are so stupid, so embarrassing, that you wonder how these people stay so out of date. Gleeful attacks "exposing" Christian hypocrisy--funny, I thought every human being who ever lived was a hypocrite, and probably had other faults besides. There should be no tolerance for "theocracy," those who want to end the separation of Church and State, etc.--but most Christians agree!
We are being manipulated and controlled by the corporate owner of more elements or our society than has ever existed before--they write the laws, pack the courts, slander and destroy anyone they want, censor it all on their media, reorganize all the economies of the world--and if putting up a "sacred holy" blah blah front works to accomplish some immediate goal this time, they will use it, and throw it in the trash the next time. The ultimate was always the multinational capitalist behind it all, pulling the strings. Remember that the "anti-gay marriage" attack was cooked up by Republican strategists to get out their vote, and achieve their real end. It was no different from the "Terror Alerts" that would come up every time Kerry made a good speech before a huge crowd on the campaign trail. (Notice: No more "Terror Alerts.") There was therefore a distinction between any authentic religious expression, and a manipulated facade to achieve something else, a corporate end. We should be making more of a point of exposing the cynical corporate/Repub manipulation behind these things that masked as "religious trends," etc.
We should associate, publicly, the Republican Party with every extremist, anti-American fringe group they are, as a matter of fact, actually associated with, and remind people of the global corporate capitalist lurking behind everything they do. There was a recent thread here, suggesting that we should make clear the link between Republicans and their contributor "Rev." Moon, (Washington Times "news"paper, etc.). I have been wondering for twenty years why Democrats have not been attacking that alliance--is this not shocking to these people? With the Terri Schiavo tragedy and Repubs' weird power-grab attempt, their DeLay's apparently finally going down, their long support of anti-abortion terrorists, and all the rest, coupled with what I hope will be a re-acceptance of the philosophical mainstream of America--covering agnostics, atheists, deeply religious people, and slightly religious people--that we can re-emerge as the true center of this country, and Republicans be exposed as the threatening, always lying global-capitalist extreme that they are. Let's support Howard Dean, John Kerry, Teresa Heinz, Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, Barbara Boxer, Rev. Jesse Jackson, Wes Clark, Ted Kennedy, and all these great people, and save our attacks for THEM--Republicans. This is our country.
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