QUOTE(Activisms @ Dec 12 2004, 01:45 AM)
Yeah but there's never telling with Kerry.....Even when they're asleep at the wheel he is sending out webcasts to all his supporters saying we are fighting for transparent elections, so maybe the guy really is underground. Nobody else in the DNC is doing anything.....
I see the activists and Cliff Arneback, and those people as doing a better service for the community they are getting all the facts and judging the overall picture of Ohio's votes, Blackwell's crimes, the testimonies from programmers and others before they move in.
I only got that one webcast asking for support for the healthcare plan for children, with a by-the-way we are still fighting for fair elections. I also met Cleff Arneback, and he is really fighting hard, and understands how all of us feel (and shows up to demonstrations, etc.). However, it is always possible for Kerry to turn around and give up, after he claimed that he was "reporting for duty" last summer. If he does give up, we must find others who will not. To me, this does not mean a third Party candidate, that is, until after there is a Constitutional Amendment to get rid of the winner-take-all electoral college system. With that in place, any third party liberal (or just less conservative) candidate would only be a spoiler for others, and would allow an even greater ideological take-over by the right-wing (if that is possible, but, they could get still more Senate and House seats, to the point where they could put forward not only Acts of Congress unopposed, but also Constitutional Amendments).
I am very angry at the DNC that they do not see that they are eating into their base, and causing a future third-party that will only dilute their vote. However, there might be one way for a third party to work: if they do not run in the general election, but use their power to endorse a Democrat candidate. (Please not Hilary; I would vote for a woman, but she especially had an opportunity to talk about vote fraud when the Clinton library opened, and she didn't say a peep. Instead, they invited all those Repubs and gave them the microphone. I will not vote for her. She really doesn't care.) If a third party endorses a democratic candidate, then the third party has the power to run its own campaign its own way, without DNC control, but while endorsing a candidate that will win.
Then, there must be a way to reach out to the members of churches... not all church members or leaders are lock-step Repubs. It is time to present the values found in feeding the poor and providing clean water. Pollution causes reproductive organ diseases like endometriosis that cause miscarriages (which in medical language are called abortions, any time a fetus doesn't make it to term). All that added pollution that the Repubs allow has caused millions of these unwanted abortions: much worse than unwanted pregnancies. That is one issue that should be shouted from the rooftops. And, why the poor felt more compelled with Repubs in power to have abortions, because they did not have jobs to support a family. And from there... most of the churches who voted for Bush only know about a few issues, but we need to reach them with all those things that Bush did and undid to the world. This is for the future... whether or not the count puts Kerry into office in January 2004. And again, I am very bothered that the Democratic Party hadn't been trying to reach out all along, indicating that, aside from the voter fraud issue, they need a greater sense of urgency about their job.