Saturday, November 3, 2018

It's Crunch Time!

The Count Down Continues...





There is no doubt about it.  

We need Regime Change here at home.

If we don't prevail and take back at least the House of Representatives, these Repugnant Retrograde Republicans will continue to support the Bully in the Presidential Pulpit.  He, in turn, will continue to support them as they turn their back on minorities, women, the elderly, most the middle class, and the working poor.

We need to turn out in massive numbers and turn the table on these crooks and misanthropes. If we do, we can at least put the brakes on their hell in a handbasket trajectory toward even greater Crony Capitalism, Xenophobia, Militarism, Racism, and Environmental Devastation.

The only thing standing in their way is us.

There are a number of ways you can jump in to dump these chumps.  You can put your feet on the ground, your mouth or fingers to the phone to call or text, or pitch in a few dollars to those specific candidates who reflect progressive values or to organizations like MoveOn.org, Indivisible, and the ACLU who are mounting widespread sophisticated Get Out The Vote (GOTV) campaigns.  The big conservative donors are spending a gazillion dollars on this.  All we have is a gazillion of US willing to devote some time and energy and/or a few bucks.  It matters.  Every $3 adds up.

If you are reading this and happen to be in a solidly Blue district like I am in here Western MA, you have a computer and/or a smart phone, right!?  Make it count!

Although we all need to roll up our sleeves for a few days and help out locally (here in MA there are important ballot initiates,) you can also have a personal impact on important races throughout the country, sitting there at home!  

Here's a few options:  
Indivisible Phone and Text Bank
•You can assist in important races like those of Beto O'Rourke in TX, Stacey Abrams in GA, and Andrew Gillum in FL.   
               
MoveOn.org Text Bank (beginning Nov. 4)

Vote with Me Phone App   
•  For a personal touch, this app uses your own contact list and identifies friends that are in districts with tight races! I love this one. It's been great to text my old friends in Woodstock, NY and encourage them to vote in the NY-19 congressional election.

                                    




1 comment:

Unknown said...

Couldn't agree with you more. It's not always easy to keep the faith, but that's what we've got to do.

My Humble Take on the Real Deal

I believe that the movement for peace, economic democracy and social justice is a Spiritual Quest. No mean feat, what is called for is a True Revolution of the Heart and Mind--and it starts with each of us.

This revolution has to be Peaceful. The Hippies (and Jesus and Mahatma Gandhi and Dr. King, et al) had it right. It really is all about Peace and Love. Besides being a total drag, violence just doesn't work. It keeps our wheels spinning in fear, anger and pain. Who needs that?

Besides some hard work, I think the Revolution also calls for dancing, plenty of laughter, and some sitting around just doing nothing. (Some folks call it meditation.)


As Stephen Gaskin, proclaimed years ago:

"We're out to raise Hell--in the Bodhisattvic* sense."

Doesn't that sound like some serious fun?

(*The Bodhisattva Vow is a set of commitments made in the Mahayana Buddhist tradition. It basically says I vow to get my act together and figure it out well enough to really help out--and I ain't gonna stop until everybody is covered.

I've found that doesn't necessarily have to happen in that order. It's best to try to help out even before you have it all together! Like right now.)

-----Brother Lefty Smith, Founding S.O.B*