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2012 is Coming. What to Do?


Rafe Pilgrim
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"The lesser evil" will become the whispered urging of the Democrats in 2012.  Too many suckers are hypnotized by it.  This will be coupled with a poisonous propaganda directed at any third-party endeavor.
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We need to reject the notion that God created only two parties, and He has ordained forevermore that only a Dem or a Repub is to reign over us no matter the constitutional abuse, the indenture to moneyed masters, and the slaughterous wars.
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Obama promised Hope and Change.  Instead of Change we got Bush Light, and our Hope has been dashed.  Any non-Republican with any brains and integrity knows this.
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It is time to open our minds to escape the two-party entrapment.  It is time for something very much better.  It is time to compel change.
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I have no favorite candidate.  I have no third-party label.  But I've been afflicted by the political disease of the past eleven years, and am compelled to seek a cure. 
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The body politic of America has been corrupted -- all of it -- BOTH the Democrat part and the Republican part, who differ from each other only in their self-serving rhetoric -- the Republicans perhaps more vicious, the Democrats more duplicitously lofty -- both, once having conned a majority of our votes, subordinating the public interest to that of their moneyed masters.
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History advises that rotten government can be changed in three ways:  by reform spearheaded by its decent citizenry, by revolution, and by conquest by a foreign power.  I strongly favor giving the first course, citizen-driven reform, our first best shot.
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Our detractors will always say that it is easy for us to be critical, but that we have nothing positive to offer in terms of correction.  Thus far, perhaps there is something to that.  Perhaps we have struggled with, perhaps we have been reluctant to -- demand a specific course of correction much as a physician may hesitate over the diagnosis, convincing himself that it is beyond any other conceivable possibility before prescribing the specific course of treatment.
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After eleven years of foreign slaughter based on lies, after the shredding of our Bill of Rights by Bush and subsequently (more quietly) by Obama, after the abuse of our economy by the investment-bankers, the millions of foreclosures and resultant homelessness, the massive unemployment, and after the gifting of our treasure to the very millionaires who caused our economy to crash, then their personal rewards of seven and eight-figure "performance" bonuses, and after the burgeoning profits of Big Oil, Big Pharma, Agribiz, WeaponsRus, et al, while the workers of America have gone forty (!) years with zero improved wages and longer hours, and after the descent of our medical care to a ranking of 37th "best" in the world at twice the cost, and our education system ranking about the same -- and did I mention (by God) torture! -- I am quite convinced we're beset by a rotten government, and lacking a specific, detailed way to correct that will in no deter that conclusion one whit!  This is still true even if I lack the solution, beyond that is, to throw the rascals out!
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So, we have diagnosis.  Now to proceed to the cure.  I need help with that.  We all need to work on that solution, and time is running short.  We need that solution before the 2012 election if we are to have something to stop abusive government running on to 2016, or until the decent peoples of the world decide it's time for THEM to stop the abuse to humanity.
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Now, past diagnosis, we need the prescription.  It's worth some sweaty palms and sleepless hours.  We need to save America and our selves, and to finally spare humanity.  The wars, the torture, the economic abuse, and the suppression of our Bill of Rights must be stopped.  This will not happen with Tweedle-Dum-Republicans and Tweedle-Dee-Democrats splitting the spoils of their moneyed masters.
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Give us your ideas.  LET US KNOW LOUDLY !  AND SOON! 

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