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Edited on Tue May-20-08 01:44 PM by tblue37
I posted this as a response in another GD:primaries thread, but I feel so strongly about the argument I am making here that I decided to give it its own thread. I especially want to address Hillary voters who are considering simply not voting for Obama in the GE if he is the nominee--or even voting for MccCain! For years we here at DU have complained about how the corporatist Republicans have corrupted our electoral process and how easily people are manipulated into voting against their own self-interest.
All a politician or a party has to do is press their buttons and they respond like Pavlov's dogs, voting against the candidate whose positions most closely resemble their own, voting against their own economic and social needs just because they are emotionally attached to a given politician's image or to certain causes (abortion, gays, guns) that are not directly relevant to how the winning candidate will govern the country.
For example, just because GWB's handlers have convinced voters that he is a Christian, they vote for him or against his opponent because they think he is a "godly man." Or they vote against Kerry because he "looks French."
It really disappoints me to see how easily Democrats, who really should know better, are manipulated into voting against our nominee in the fall or simply staying out of the process altogether, when every vote is needed. We need a true tsunami to overcome the inevitable attempts to steal the election by voter suppression tactics and electronic hacking. We will lose a lot of votes by way of such theft, so we need a lot more to balance out those lost votes.
I am quite certain that we won by much larger margins in 2006 than showed up in the final results. I am equally sure that we won more seats in both houses of Congress than we ended up with. We also know that we won in 2000 and 2004, but close elections are just too easy to steal.
So we need Hillary’s loyal voters to vote for Obama in the fall, to protect us against such inevitable attempts to steal the election again. If they stay home, or if they vote for McCain, then we could lose the election, despite the many thousands of people at Obama’s rallies (don’t forget the huge crowds Kerry and Edwards drew in 2004), and despite the millions of new voters Obama will bring to the polls.
Any dispassionate analysis would reveal to Hillary’s voters that Obama is light years better than McCain, and that McCain would appoint 2 to 3 new SC Justices, locking in the radical right wing majority for an entire generation, perhaps even longer, and undoing the gains we have made since FDR. Also, the already far advanced corruption in the DOJ and all through the federal bench would become worse under a McCain administration, whereas a Dem administration could begin the process of straightening it out.
Do we really want more partisan witchhunts like the one that imprisoned Don Siegelman? Do we want the government to use those KB&R-built concentration camps to round up dissenters like us?
We can’t afford emotional, irrational votes (or non-votes). Our lives and our children’s and grandchildren’s lives will be dramatically affected for the worse if McCain wins this election. That’s an incontrovertible fact, and I believe that even the most committed Hillary voter must realize this. If they did not realize how much worse the Republicans are for our country, they would not want to vote for Hillary in the first place!
So how can anyone, anyone, who is aware of how much damage Republicans have done to the quality of life in this country, to the world, to everything, even consider doing anything that could risk letting the Republicans remain in power? We need a Dem president, no matter who it is, and a large Dem majority in the House and Senate, not just to prevent further damage, but also to begin undoing some of the damage this criminal administration has already done. A large Dem majority, led by a Dem president, can begin to untangle the pervasive corruption in the DOJ, and also undertake real investigations aimed at bringing some of the worst criminals of these past 8 years to justice.
Come on, people—how can you not want that, no matter who the Dem nominee is? I don’t see any way for Hillary to take this nomination, but if she somehow did, I would not only vote for her, I would work my ass off to try to help her win! We all need to work for whoever the nominee is. It’s that simple.
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