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(originally posted to Daily Kos on 7 Nov 2020, 10:59 PM)

“Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.” — Winston Churchill

As the high of N7 Day’s Biden-Harris victory begins to fade, the titanic amount of work ahead can seem daunting — because it is. Even if Democrats win both of Georgia’s two runoffs to reclaim the Senate by a hairsbreadth, there are still at least 71 million Americans who are okay with racism, sexism, fascism, and rampant corruption, as long as liberals cry and rich people get tax breaks.…

This needs to go mainstream now.

In a last ditch bid to win Pennsylvania’s electoral votes, where Democratic Sen. John Kerry is leading is most polls, President George W. Bush has engaged in mailings which contain myriad graphic images of the burning World Trade Center on the morning of Sept. 11, 2001.

They have the images on their site. It’s real. This is the slimiest hit piece they’ve done so far, and that’s saying something.

Remember, Bush promised not to politicize September 11th. They couldn’t be exploiting it more nakedly than this. Let’s nail them.

(/) Roland X
Kerry/Edwards 2004: Vote While You Still Can

Originally posted on Daily Kos, …

Posted by Morgan, forwarding a message from another list (with permission) because I feel the message needs to get out.

I had a revelation a few days ago as the boys and I were driving through our traditionally Republican community (a misnomer) in West St. Louis County, watching for Kerry-Edwards yard signs and seeing more than we expected. Then I saw a yard that had only green-and-white yard signs that proclaimed simply “JESUS.” And then I thought how the political right has co-opted major cultural symbols like the flag, the Bible, and Jesus? I thought of some Pagan friends in AMER who marched in a demonstration some years ago, wearing 3-piece suits instead of tie-dye and carrying an American flag and a copy of the Constitution, and I remembered the concept of message control and reclaiming one’s symbols.…

From another comment thread:

It [Bush’s reputation] can be destroyed by the perception of Bush failing despite adherence to the scheme in the eyes of his followers. Call it occultism, identify and mock the particular tenets, point out how they fail in Reality, and the “faith” collapses in a hurry.

Ironically, this is something I have been struggling with for some time. I do, in fact, believe in the power of the will to alter reality. So, in fact, do you — it’s just that your variant of this belief is called “science,” and requires different forms of action than magickal/spiritual methods.…