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Michael Moore: Election was total rebuke of Neanderthal attitudes
11/8/2012 3:30pm by John Aravosis 5 Comments Print
This country has truly changed, and I believe there will be no going back. Hate lost yesterday. That is amazing in and of itself. And all the women who were elected last night! A total rebuke of Neanderthal attitudes.Now the real work begins. Millions of us the majority must come together to insist that President Obama and the Democrats stand up and fight for the things we sent them there to do. Mr. President, do not listen to the pundits who today call for you to compromise. No. You already tried that. It didnt work. You can compromise later if you need to, but please, no more beginning by compromising. And if the Republican House doesnt want to play ball, do a massive end run around them with one executive order after another just like they have done and will do if given the chance again.
We have to have Obamas back. As he is blocked and attacked by the Right, we need to be there with him. We are the majority. Lets act like it.
And please Mr. President, make the banks and Wall Street pay. Youre the boss, not them. Lead the fight to get money out of politics the spending on this election is shameful and dangerous. Dont wait til 2014 to bring the troops home bring em home now. Stop the drone strikes on civilians. End the senseless war on drugs. Act like a pit bull when it comes to climate change ignore the nuts, and fix this now. Take the profit motive out of things that any civilized country would say, this is for the common good. Make higher educational affordable for everyone and dont send 22-year-olds out into the world already in massive debt. Order a moratorium on home foreclosures and evictions. Enact economic policy that will create good-paying jobs and spend the money thats needed to do that. Make your second term one for the history books.
Finally, thanks must be given to the Occupy movement who, a year ago, set the tone of this election year by getting everyone to talk about the 1% vs. 99%. It inspired Obama and his campaign to realize that there was a huge popular sentiment against what the wealthy have done to the country and there was something wrong if just 400 rich guys owned more than 160 million Americans combined (all those moochers and bums). This led to Romneys 47% remarks and THAT was the beginning of the end of his campaign. Thank you Mother Jones for releasing that secret tape, and thank you to the minimum wage worker who placed a camera on the serving buffet next to the candle. This mornings headline in the Washington Post says it all: At Romney headquarters, the defeat of the 1 percent. Thank you Sandra Fluke for enduring the insults hurled at you and then becoming an important grassroots leader against the war on women. Thank you Todd Akin for
well, for just being you. Thank you CEOs of Chrysler and GM for coming out forcefully against the Republican(!) candidate, saying he lived in some parallel universe when he lied about Jeep. Thank you Governor Christie for your new bromance with Obama. You know, you really didnt have to!
http://americablog.com/2012/11/michael-moore-election-was-total-rebuke-of-neanderthal-attitudes.html
Skittles
(153,164 posts)the rightwing threw everything they had into this election and it wasn't enough
Grateful for Hope
(39,320 posts)I am loving this. It is about time.
qkvhj
(57 posts)Nothing was won in this election for the left. I voted for Obama and am glad he won, but, the House is still not ours and they hold the purse strings still. We picked up some in the Senate but already had that. We lost on the Governor count. We kept the next USSC justice from being a right winger and that was the only major accomplishment of this election.
Folks that get all puffed up here are kidding themselves. Almost half of our nation does not agree with us and never will. Like it or not we still have to deal with them and they us, somehow.....
For those of us who have a few years and elections under our belts we already know that things never turn out as good as we want or as badly as we feared.
Life goes on and the overall score isn't much different than it was a year ago.
please....
kp