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(This post assumes that Obama gets nominated. Please stay with me for a moment...)
I think DU is, at it's best, a fine compilation of diverging views within the sphere of current Democratic principles.
At it's worst, it's kind of like group therapy among 10,000 close friends. After the room is set on fire. But I digress...
I know that most of the people here are neither racist or xenophobic, and that we all know that this is not the case nationwide.
My question is this: How will the Democratic Underground, and the Democratic party as a whole combat the -relentless- racism and xenophobia that is now loading up in the media......It will be a 24/7 fact of life in the General Election. And it WILL be relentless, every hideous lie and racist meme spun out through the web until they become urban legend and cannot be effectively squelched.
Is there a way to effectively preempt this onslaught? A clearing house, perhaps, that can send 100,000 emails to Bill Mahar when an asshat like Rep. Jackson, or whoever that Georgia state representative was, who got away with two of the three big lies so far about Obama - the flag pin and the hand over the heart. Mahar looked stunned about the hand over the heart...like he didn't know the truth. He should have known that night, about 100,000 times....
As far as I know there is no organized effort to at least let people who are SUPPOSED to be our allies know, let alone the subnormal freaks on the radio dial...and THEIR ADVERTISERS.
I think it might be time to start the process of getting organized on this level. I lived in Nashville and in Texas for a couple years, and although there are many fine people in these places and all across this nation, to say this is going to be an uphill battle, I think, isn't really doing the problem justice.
Overconfidence really fucked us up in 2000. I don't think we can afford another Republican.
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