I don't understand. In my lifetime, the Democratic Party has been about
social programs, redistributing wealth (sort of), protecting people from
the predations of large corporations and the unscrupulously powerful
people that control them. Also in my lifetime, the Democratic Party has
listened to the Republicans turn "liberal" into a dirty word, because God
knows, caring about your fellow human beings enough to actually *help*
them must be the absolute worst thing for the country. And the Party has
taken this lying down, and I'm sick of it because if you can't find the
courage to speak up, John Ashcroft's Department of Justice (using the term
loosely) is going to acquire the ability to strip me or anyone else of my
citizenship. In theory that means you, too, if you displease your
corporate masters.

Bush is a *liar*. Do you get it? Do you care, or have you been paid off
too? He *lies*. That means that he says one thing and does five other
things to undermine that one thing. It means he says that increased
logging means fire control, instead of easier profit for logging companies
on the backs of further environmental degradation. It means he says war is
the last resort, even when that war has been planned and taken for granted
since the late 90s. It means he says we support our troops, then cuts
veterans' benefits. It means he says the economy is growing, when we're
still millions and millions of jobs in the hole since 2000.

His lying is documented. Really. If he sued you for slander, you'd
win. Since the Democratic Party doesn't seem interested in documenting it,
MoveOn.org has picked up the slack at http://www.misleader.org .

I don't care how you do it. Wrap yourself in the damn flag if you need
to. Cutting veterans' benefits seems pretty unpatriotic to me. Stripping
people's citizenship, holding them indefinitely without due process--maybe
it seems like people are too scared to care, but point out to them that
this can happen to *them*, or their *children*, or their *friends*, that
Timothy McVeigh was white and middle-class and Midwestern too and these
are not the sorts of things that only happen to somebody else.

Speak up, or go join the Republicans and give somebody else a chance to do
what you're not willing to.