With thanks to Ali at Scottie’s Playtime. I am absolutely with her. I was with Biden too, even as I began to wonder if he was up to the task at hand. Right now, nothing in the US political realm is more important than stopping the authoritarian, would-be dictator and his theocratic minions.
Minorities, and indeed our very democracy, are at severe risk if that man ever sets foot again in the White House. Minorities such as BIPOC, immigrants, and LGBTQ are (rightly) concerned about concentration camps. I’ve said before that I see the United States as on the threshold of a repeat of 1933 Germany. I truly do not see that as hyperbole.
Vote as if your life, and that of people you care about, are on the line. Vote as if our very democracy is on the line. Because they are.
[…] This is what the Republican Party has done to us this year: It has placed within reach of the Oval Office a woman who is a religious fanatic and a proud, boastful ignoramus. Those who despise science and learning are not anti-elitist. They are morally and intellectually slothful people who are secretly envious of the educated and the cultured. And those who prate of spiritual warfare and demons are not just “people of faith” but theocratic bullies. On Nov. 4, anyone who cares for the Constitution has a clear duty to repudiate this wickedness and stupidity.
Excellent summary of the very best reason to vote Obama/Biden. Their ideas are not necessarily the best ones out there, but at least they are not proud of their own stupidity.
Update on the Election Fraud story about which I posted earlier. It seems that Mark Crispin Miller wanted to comment on the Salon story “debunking” Rolling Stone and Robert Kennedy. Salon refused to print his letter to them, and essentially cut off all discussion on the topic. Well, I’m “Not Ready to Make Nice” on this one. Go here to read Mark Crispin Miller’s open letter to Salon.
Excerpt:
What explains this eagerness to kill all conversation on an issue of such grave importance? This is not a question just about Farhad Manjoo and/or Salon, because your way of dealing, or not dealing, with this all-important matter has been typical of the entire US political establishment throughout Bush/Cheney’s reign. This general silence has prevented us from facing an enormous threat to our democracy, which is now at unprecedented risk.
Republicans prevented more than 350,000 voters in Ohio from casting ballots or having their votes counted — enough to have put John Kerry in the White House. BY ROBERT F. KENNEDY JR.
BTW: Omerta is the mafia “law of silence”. Read Crispin’s open letter to know why I added this.
Many of you may have read it already or seen the uneven film adaptation, but if you haven’t, I highly recommend reading The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood.
It is a dystopian science fiction novel similar to 1984 and Brave New World in that it is a very personal look at a future totalitarian society.
The difference is that unlike Brave New World and 1984, we really are on the edge of becoming the Republic of Gilead.
Superintendent Ed Lyman pulled the book, saying it was too explicit for high school students.
Personally, I am convinced this is why it got pulled in the first place. Highlighting mine.
The Handmaid’s Tale centers on a fundamentalist Christian group that forces women to act as sex slaves. Those who sided with Lyman feel the book is sexually explicit and offensive to Christians.
This was an advanced placement English curriculum. These high school students were doing college level work for college credit. You simply cannot ban the material that is covered on the AP English course, if you offer it. The students will pay to take the test, and the score determines their college credit. Fail the test, you don’t get the college credit.
Casting Stones: An Army of radical Christian Reconstructionists is preparing a campaign to convert conservative fundamentalist churches. By David Holthouse of the Southern Poverty Law Center
Interesting, if somewhat sarcastic, analysis of Mark Rushdoony and the Chalcedon Foundation.
I am a well educated woman, a lesbian, and an eclectic Pagan. I am loving and giving. I am a caretaker type, who often fails miserably at self care. I have fibromyalgia, seizure disorder, and AFib.
I am complex, complicated, and worth the effort.
An Aging Trans Woman 