VOTE 2004
So here it is, November 2, 2004. Voting Day, and also Day of the Dead. I have never in my life lived through something so significant as this day. Yes, while I told my daughter to lock the moment in her head on 9-11, because that day would be a critical day in American history, I believe that this day is more significant.
Today will be the day when Americans decide who they are, who America is, and what we truly stand for.
Will we stand for ourselves, in yet another ploy to colonialize the rest of the world, ending their customs and wiping out all opposing belief systems in the name of the Land of the Almighty Dollar Store?
Or will we choose to bring our children home, and allow others to enjoy the same freedoms in their own countries that we pretend to protect and enjoy in ours?
Will fear dominate, or will we use our collective wisdom to turn this country around and make it a decent place to be, and to have decent relations with?
Will the election be fair?
If you look at the reports already coming into Michael Moore's website, (it's currently only 12:07 pm EST), it looks as though it won't be. My co-worker registered for the first time this year, and never got her ID card. The machines are a mess. People are bribing incarcerated individuals in jail for their absentee ballots. This election is already wrought with fraud.
Will we stand for it?
Or will we tire quickly of fighting for our constitutional rights when we are told that everything is fair and there is little we can do.
I think that this election, all of America will feel what it's like to be black. To be a woman in certain places of business. To be of a minority, coming to America to try and make a better life for themselves. To be Native American and fighting for land you've always lived on before the white men came.
This election, we all share a common snow-job.
This election, I do not think it is even so much who we vote for, but what we DO about the manipulation of the election, the government, the media, as it all unfolds.
This will determine who America is to us, and to the rest of the world.
Will we rip the wool from our eyes, or stand in line to be sheared?
Today will be the day when Americans decide who they are, who America is, and what we truly stand for.
Will we stand for ourselves, in yet another ploy to colonialize the rest of the world, ending their customs and wiping out all opposing belief systems in the name of the Land of the Almighty Dollar Store?
Or will we choose to bring our children home, and allow others to enjoy the same freedoms in their own countries that we pretend to protect and enjoy in ours?
Will fear dominate, or will we use our collective wisdom to turn this country around and make it a decent place to be, and to have decent relations with?
Will the election be fair?
If you look at the reports already coming into Michael Moore's website, (it's currently only 12:07 pm EST), it looks as though it won't be. My co-worker registered for the first time this year, and never got her ID card. The machines are a mess. People are bribing incarcerated individuals in jail for their absentee ballots. This election is already wrought with fraud.
Will we stand for it?
Or will we tire quickly of fighting for our constitutional rights when we are told that everything is fair and there is little we can do.
I think that this election, all of America will feel what it's like to be black. To be a woman in certain places of business. To be of a minority, coming to America to try and make a better life for themselves. To be Native American and fighting for land you've always lived on before the white men came.
This election, we all share a common snow-job.
This election, I do not think it is even so much who we vote for, but what we DO about the manipulation of the election, the government, the media, as it all unfolds.
This will determine who America is to us, and to the rest of the world.
Will we rip the wool from our eyes, or stand in line to be sheared?
posted by Dead Mouse Girl at 1:00 PM
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