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The Democratic party e-mailed me a survey about the election 2004. Here’s my reply

by Open-Publishing - Tuesday 9 November 2004
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Elections-Elected USA

by Donna LoCicero

Election Feedback

Please take a few minutes to complete our Election 2004 survey.

1. How did you participate in this election?
I made phone calls, canvassed, sent articles to family and friends, fought
with my sister, alienated an old friend, talked and read and talked and read
and talked some more, I went to rallies, and got my teenagers, friends and
family involved. I went to meetings, joined progressive organizations and I gave
more money than I ever have in my life. I also formed a group called "The
Cheney Gang" (try cheneygang.tripod.com or bdprofilms.com/cheney), a group where
we put on Dick Cheney masks and dress up in Republican suits and ties and sing
songs like "What the World Needs Now is Oil Sweet Oil". I wrote a lot of
songs: Bombmaker (sung to the tune of Matchmaker) "Bombmaker, bombmaker, blast
me a blast, nuke me a nuke, pass the teargas, night after night in my bunker
alone, please build me a bomb of my own!" I danced in a Dick Cheney outfit on
those web sites. They’ve also been seen at our local theatre. Keep in mind -
I’m a 46 year old woman with no entertaining/songwriting experience. I’m just
pissed off. And now I’m doing whatever I can to deal with this complete
fraud of an election. It ain’t over.

2. Is this the first time you participated in election activism?
yes

3. How would you like to continue to stay involved? (Volunteering,
phonebanking, fundraising, local organizing, etc.)
I would like to win this election. Still.

4. Did you feel the actions you took were effective?
Well, yes. Everybody’s actions were effective.
We won really... against tremendous odds. People care about it. Everyone I
talk to is in mourning. Not because we lost. Every Democrat knows what loss
feels like. But because this election was stolen. And the mainstream media
is denying it like crazy. One of the things I’m currently doing is e-mailing
folks about the discrepancies of this election. People are joining my informal
e-mail list and asking for more.

5. Was it a good experience for you?
A good experience? I’m pissed as hell right now. Is that a good thing? I’m
not sure. I’d rather be celebrating Kerry’s cabinet choices, wouldn’t you?

6. How would you make it better?
If I were dictator?

Commit all resources to documenting this fraud. Have the leadership take the
preliminary findings and be loud and clear and resolute. Have the media
report the story fully. Have a full investigation with a lot of bite to it.

Now, if I am dictator over what the Bush administration does? I’d just tell
them to go to prison... nicely, of course.

7. Please share other thoughts and comments you have about the 2004 election
and what Democrats and the Democratic Party should do going forward.

I think you get my drift by now. This election is a crime. There’s no
talking about the future - more progressive, less progressive, blah, blah, blah
until we deal with that....and get rid of corporate machines counting our votes.

Get real. Deal with the tragedy at hand.

Forum posts

  • I want a Cheney mask!!!! Ever notice how unusually he holds his mic? This tells an awful lot about a man. Let Linda, the lesbian-book author, have him.

    There’s nothing wrong with being pissed. In fact, this is a good kind of pissed. Not the kind that calls for innocent blood, and death to anyone outside the Bible Belt: that sinister, other-worldly beligerent pissed so many God-fearing people are proud to call their own. What’s up with that? It’s like a bad dream, no, a frightmare!

    We might consider blaming the Disney Channel for portraying a generation of young women as conniving, cut-throat beings, while the young men play either shallow invaders or sniveling fools for them. Sorry Mickey, just calling it like it is.

    Had I the foresight to make masks, I would have picked Karen Hughes, only, having banned Disney, I never learned the bitch tactics. I guess that wouldn’t be too much fun after all. What I need are some videos of her to understand how it’s done. I am currently writing to the United Nations to inform them that a surefire way to get the Bush Administration is to study their modus operandi, then lower themselves to play the same game. Something like that, only in an educated format.

    I, for one, am eagerly awaiting the major foul-ups apt to occur by December 13th, those which might ENTICE the Electoral College to dump the fraudulent popular vote. Ah! That’s the rub! Except come January 6th, we might have to contend with half a nation of really pissed people with Bibles and Guns! I urge all pychologists and law enforcement people to stand ready! Maybe hire an Israeli contractior to build a nice wall.

    In the meantime, I entertain myself by watching for Sean Hannity’s head to explode, or spot Bill O’Reilly’s semi-invisible temple horns, (I swear I’ve seen them. Was this a movie, or, am I hallucinating?) although I make sure to equalize my ire by taking two Keith Olberman’s most nights before I retire. Can’t get enough of him.

    Still, one of the worst parts about all this is that people like my sister, who excommunicated me from the Catholic Church, aren’t just drooling, it’s like mass hysteria...as if they’ve been given license to rule the world. This must be a direct relation to a misconstruing of definition that they are actually RIGHT and we’ve been LEFT behind—at, least for the moment. Remember: January 6th. January 6th. We should all practice some Sufi breathing techniques while imagining the Electors shaking hands not being able to vote for Bush. Send waves of sickening revulsion their way as a little added measure.

    Enjoyed the article, thanks!

    marsha hodgson, a little weary, but not ready for defeat!

    • Fuck the South. Fuck ’em. We should have let them go when they wanted to leave. But no, we had to kill half a million people so they’d stay part of our special Union. Fighting for the right to keep slaves - yeah, those are states we want to keep.

      And now what do we get? We’re the fucking Arrogant Northeast Liberal Elite? How about this for arrogant: the South is the Real America? The Authentic America. Really?

      Cause we fucking founded this country, assholes. Those Founding Fathers you keep going on and on about? All that bullshit about what you think they meant by the Second Amendment giving you the right to keep your assault weapons in the glove compartment because you didn’t bother to read the first half of the fucking sentence? Who do you think those wig-wearing lacy-shirt sporting revolutionaries were? They were fucking blue-staters, dickhead. Boston? Philadelphia? New York? Hello? Think there might be a reason all the fucking monuments are up here in our backyard?

      No, No. Get the fuck out. We’re not letting you visit the Liberty Bell and fucking Plymouth Rock anymore until you get over your real American selves and start respecting those other nine amendments. Who do you think those fucking stripes on the flag are for? Nine are for fucking blue states. And it would be 10 if those Vermonters had gotten their fucking Subarus together and broken off from New York a little earlier. Get it? We started this shit, so don’t get all uppity about how real you are you Johnny-come-lately "Oooooh I’ve been a state for almost a hundred years" dickheads. Fuck off.

      Arrogant? You wanna talk about us Northeasterners being fucking arrogant? What’s more American than arrogance? Hmmm? Maybe horsies? I don’t think so. Arrogance is the fucking cornerstone of what it means to be American. And I wouldn’t be so fucking arrogant if I wasn’t paying for your fucking bridges, bitch.

      All those Federal taxes you love to hate? It all comes from us and goes to you, so shut up and enjoy your fucking Tennessee Valley Authority electricity and your fancy highways that we paid for. And the next time Florida gets hit by a hurricane you can come crying to us if you want to, but you’re the ones who built on a fucking swamp. "Let the Spanish keep it, it’s a shithole," we said, but you had to have your fucking orange juice.

      The next dickwad who says, "It’s your money, not the government’s money" is gonna get their ass kicked. Nine of the ten states that get the most federal fucking dollars and pay the least... can you guess? Go on, guess. That’s right, motherfucker, they’re red states. And eight of the ten states that receive the least and pay the most? It’s too easy, asshole, they’re blue states. It’s not your money, assholes, it’s fucking our money. What was that Real American Value you were spouting a minute ago? Self reliance? Try this for self reliance: buy your own fucking stop signs, assholes.

      Let’s talk about those values for a fucking minute. You and your Southern values can bite my ass because the blue states got the values over you fucking Real Americans every day of the goddamn week. Which state do you think has the lowest divorce rate you marriage-hyping dickwads? Well? Can you guess? It’s fucking Massachusetts, the fucking center of the gay marriage universe. Yes, that’s right, the state you love to tie around the neck of anyone to the left of Strom Thurmond has the lowest divorce rate in the fucking nation. Think that’s just some aberration? How about this: 9 of the 10 lowest divorce rates are fucking blue states, asshole, and most are in the Northeast, where our values suck so bad. And where are the highest divorce rates? Care to fucking guess? 10 of the top 10 are fucking red-ass we’re-so-fucking-moral states. And while Nevada is the worst, the Bible Belt is doing its fucking part.

      But two guys making out is going to fucking ruin marriage for you? Yeah? Seems like you’re ruining it pretty well on your own, you little bastards. Oh, but that’s ok because you go to church, right? I mean you do, right? Cause we fucking get to hear about it every goddamn year at election time. Yes, we’re fascinated by how you get up every Sunday morning and sing, and then you’re fucking towers of moral superiority. Yeah, that’s a workable formula. Maybe us fucking Northerners don’t talk about religion as much as you because we’re not so busy sinning, hmmm? Ever think of that, you self-righteous assholes? No, you’re too busy erecting giant stone tablets of the Ten Commandments in buildings paid for by the fucking Northeast Liberal Elite. And who has the highest murder rates in the nation? It ain’t us up here in the North, assholes.

      Well this gravy train is fucking over. Take your liberal-bashing, federal-tax-leaching, confederate-flag-waving, holier-than-thou, hypocritical bullshit and shove it up your ass.

      And no, you can’t have your fucking convention in New York next time. Fuck off.

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    • I guess you guys really are pissed. stay that way