whose america?

There are still some people who are angry enough with the Democrats to spite the party and not vote this mid term election. Many, perhaps too many feel that promises made by Democratic nominees in 2008, and especially President Obama have been left to collect dust and worse than that were empty words only meant to tease.

According to the main stream press and the FOX-PAC network, there are angry people who want quick fixes, less truth, immediate blame and want to elect people, who sound, look, religiously believe and act as they do. Their anger has been wisely swept up by the Republican billionaires and has been slickly marketed as a grass roots movement albeit paid for by wealthy Americans. And this group we are told is revved and ready to vote.

There are Americans who state it is all about the economy and somehow think placing a Republican/Tea Bag party back in control of our government will not look, act and smell like the same government of Bush/Cheney which was in power for 8 years. Somehow the synapses of these Americans has been altered to forget the past 8 years and that somehow no regulations, activist Republican Supreme Court Justices, tax breaks for the 1%wealthy, declaring wars to revise the bottom lines for businesses chummy with Dick Cheney, permitting Health Insurance companies to increase rates while decreasing coverage, drill baby drill won’t be repeated. For many who do state “it is the economy stupid”, they also are embracing candidates who speak louder about destroying the rights and freedoms of minorities in this country and what they wish to do about THEM (the Gays, Women, Elderly, Disabled, Mexicans) then providing answers to the mortgage crisis, joblessness, and outsourcing jobs.

There are some minorities in this country who feel disenfranchised by the Democrats and just want to sit on their hands thinking that by NOT voting somehow some lesson will be taught. It is as if those defeated in the mid term election will then cower in the corner and plead with the minorities making it better the next time; the next time for whom? If there is no one to say Gay rights, Women’s reproductive rights, rights for immigrants, keep the ADA, Health Care for all, regulations for corporations then the next time becomes mute and more Tea Bag/Republicans get elected.

Perhaps if we hunker down and vote for the lesser of two evils and decide the day after the mid terms we need to let the “bums know why we didn’t vote them out”, we all may have the ears and minds of those who have taken us for granted. Having a conversation with people who at least speak the same language makes for better communication then speaking to people who have no idea what you are saying. Imagine discussing equality with Christine O’Donnell, Carl Paladino, Joe Miller, Sharron Angle, Rich Iott, Ken Buck, Rand Paul, imagine the second amendment rights replacing the ballot, imagine the Christian Bible replacing the Constitution, imagine the militias roaming the state lines, imagine those conversations. Imagine Sarah Palin as President.

If you pride yourself in not having history rewritten so it can include your personal prejudices, in allowing dissent to be heard, in a separation of church and state, in all candidates being interviewed by all the press not a select few, talking about equality, then how can you sit at home and think you are punishing anyone but yourself by not voting? Many of us are angry, but steering that anger in a more productive manner suits our needs and does not permit those who have proclaimed to be our enemies to win.

We need to vote for a semblance of sanity because if we do not then the insane will surly run the asylum. And whose America will it be?