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1. American voters grokked all the B.S. coming from these jokers, and voted the Bush Cartel out!
2. All opinion polls show record disapproval of Bush, with huge disapproval of every major Bush policy, foreign and domestic, up in the 60% to 70% range. My favorite: 63% of Americans disapprove of torture UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES. (And what do we get? Alberto Gonzales for A.G.!)
3. Citizens gave the Democrats a blowout success in new voter registration in 2004 (nearly 60/40)! You can't tell me they don't care. And came out in unprecedented numbers to vote. Gore voters got their non-voting family members, friends and co-workers to vote this time. Most new voters voted for Kerry. The vast majority of Nader voters switched to Kerry--to get Bush out. Some stood in ten hour lines in the rain to vote. Don't care? Unh-uh.
4. Many Americans have devoted their lives to stopping Bush's war, exposing his election fraud and getting election and political reform. Never sneer at such commitment! --even if it gets no publicity from the news monopolies, and seems to be only a few. A million of us marched against this war in Feb. '03, and were ignored or marginalized. Nearly 60% of Americans opposed the war right up to the invasion; that dipped during the fighting, obviously out of concern for US troops in battle, then went right back up to nearly 60% today, STILL opposed! We shall overcome some day. That's what you should be saying. Not: we don't care.
There is a difference between NOT CARING and being IGNORED AND MARGINALIZED. The difference is power. The majority has been deliberately and systematically disempowered over a long period of time, but most significantly on Nov. 2, 2004, the coup de grace of disempowerment.
You walk down the street and randomly stop a number of people, and ask them, "Do you care if America invaded another country with no justification, and killed 100,000 innocent people, and is now occupying that country?" or "Do you care that the rich are getting richer and the poor poorer as deliberate government policy?" or "Does it worry you that the environment, the cost of medical care and other vital issues are not getting proper attention, and that our current government is always on the wrong side of these issues?"
You'll find that they DO care--many of them deeply. What you will also find, though, is that most of them feel helpless and disempowered.
So stop saying they don't care. That's lazy! And start working on empowerment! Remember that old '60s cry, "Power to the people!" Boy, is that ever relevant now!
There is REASON why Americans have been subjected to an "Iron Curtain" over the real news, and why their right to vote has been taken away from them, and why they don't know about it. America is the vortex of corporate rule over the globe--and ALSO is the potential vortex of profound change, toward global peace and justice. If our Constitution were still operable, we would be leading the world in efforts to stabilize our planetary environment, and to promote economic fairness, the success of new democracy movements (in Latin America, for instance), disarmament and peaceful resolution of conflicts. We were starting to do just that in the Seattle protests against the World Trade Organization in 1999. Our global corporate rulers FEAR us. They fear Americans' potential legal power to put a stop to their piracy.
So I say again, "Power to the people!" That what's we need to work for, and ensure. I think there is only a small minority who are oblivious, selfish or crazy. The majority (and I think that includes a significant number of Republicans) are very concerned, and were informed enough by alternative news sources and savvy enough to vote the Bush Cartel out, but are very poorly informed on why it didn't work. Many undoubtedly feel depressed and resigned.
That's what we have to change.
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