Give me but one firm spot on which to stand—
Swiftly kicked pants for morale unite! Me, I’m still trying to scrape something together, so it’s a good thing Dylan’s on the ball. Here’s the sweet spot:
Robyn commented afterward that the strange thing about this campaign is the less you pay attention to it, the more you somehow assume it’s doing badly, that Kerry is a popsicle stick, that somehow everybody really does just buy into the blatantly painful things this administration has bungled in the past four years.
And then everytime you actually stop to consider it, to actually listen to this guy, you go:
Who the hell was it said we were down on the mat? Screw this Curse of the Bambino mindset, I don’t want to wait till next year.
I want to hear the words President John Kerry was sworn into office today, I want this country to rejoin the planet Earth, I want national forests and fuel alternatives and united allies and goddamned better health care than this corporate bleeding machine we have now.
I want terrorism to decrease because we’re aiding the Middle East instead of exploiting it, I want AIDS funding worldwide, I want couples, no matter what their chromosome tally, to be able to raise children and own houses and go to work without being terrified it will all be taken away.
I want to stop seeing blocks of red and blue, I want a conservative party whose causes I respect with freedom to dissent, I want a liberal party not afraid to be exactly that, and I want moderates to bridge the gap and small parties to give us all a good sock in the nose now and then.
I want American kids to be taught to eat good food, I want schoolteachers to be paid like doctors instead of like dishwashers, I want a strong and able military but one which no longer cancerously devours billions of unnecessary dollars.
I want women to keep their hard choices about childbearing between themselves, their doctor, and their own conscience. I want my library record to be between me and my librarian, I want a working class that doesn’t sell itself out to culture war charlatans in fear, I want solid jobs that are for the good of America and not the board of executives.
Read the rest. Then go! Move the world!
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