LETTER TO THE EDITOR
[Gazette Blog Editor's comment: While this letter writer's points are well taken, we believe there are some good Republicans. On the local scene, they include sheriff's candidate Adam Shepherd and Supervisor Tommie Martin. We endorse them both.]
Editor:
When folks went to
the polls on November 4, 2008 they were electing a President, not a
Messiah. It appears a whole gob of people didn’t get that memo. Now here
they are whining that nobody piled bars of gold on their porches while
they sat on their butts watching “reality” TV.
Since 2008 how many people have taken to the streets in protest? (Forget Tea Party zealots. Oh sure, they’ve been in the streets with their racist, homophobic, screed, but all they were protesting is what the Koch Brothers told them to protest.)
It has recently been stated that working stiffs voting Republican is like chickens voting for Colonel Sanders. There is, however, one big, huge difference. Chickens have brains the size of peas.
Vote the straight Democratic ticket. Of course there are lots of phony Democrats, but there are also plenty of good ones, like those in the Congressional Progressive Caucus. Now name me one decent Republican. C’mon, just one.
After the elections lace up your boots. We’ll have to take to the streets in non-violent assemblages if we want to return this nation to those who built it...the working class. We’ll need general strikes if we hope to return a semblance of democracy to our nation. That is the only way to force corporatists. General strikes are not radical actions. They will be our salvation. Now it is up to us...to vox populi.
There you have it. Will history look back on us a doers or whiners?
Rich Austin
Since 2008 how many people have taken to the streets in protest? (Forget Tea Party zealots. Oh sure, they’ve been in the streets with their racist, homophobic, screed, but all they were protesting is what the Koch Brothers told them to protest.)
It has recently been stated that working stiffs voting Republican is like chickens voting for Colonel Sanders. There is, however, one big, huge difference. Chickens have brains the size of peas.
Vote the straight Democratic ticket. Of course there are lots of phony Democrats, but there are also plenty of good ones, like those in the Congressional Progressive Caucus. Now name me one decent Republican. C’mon, just one.
After the elections lace up your boots. We’ll have to take to the streets in non-violent assemblages if we want to return this nation to those who built it...the working class. We’ll need general strikes if we hope to return a semblance of democracy to our nation. That is the only way to force corporatists. General strikes are not radical actions. They will be our salvation. Now it is up to us...to vox populi.
There you have it. Will history look back on us a doers or whiners?
Rich Austin
