Portrait, Michael Moore, 04/03/09. (photo: Ann-Christine Poujoulat/Getty)
08 November 12
To my fellow Americans, I think you'll agree: it was nice to wake up this morning in the United States of America.
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country has truly changed, and I believe there will be no going back.
Hate lost yesterday. That is amazing in and of itself. And all the women
who were elected last night! A total rebuke of Neanderthal attitudes.
Now the real work begins. Millions of us - the
majority - must come together to insist that President Obama and the
Democrats stand up and fight for the things we sent them there to do.
Mr. President, do not listen to the pundits who today call for you to
"compromise." No. You already tried that. It didn't work. You can
compromise later if you need to, but please, no more beginning by
compromising. And if the Republican House doesn't want to play ball, do a
massive end run around them with one executive order after another -
just like they have done and will do if given the chance again.
We have to have Obama's back. As he is blocked and
attacked by the Right, we need to be there with him. We are the
majority. Let's act like it.
And please Mr. President, make the banks and Wall
Street pay. You're the boss, not them. Lead the fight to get money out
of politics - the spending on this election is shameful and dangerous.
Don't wait til 2014 to bring the troops home - bring 'em home now. Stop
the drone strikes on civilians. End the senseless war on drugs. Act like
a pit bull when it comes to climate change - ignore the nuts, and fix
this now. Take the profit motive out of things that any civilized
country would say, "this is for the common good." Make higher
educational affordable for everyone and don't send 22-year-olds out into
the world already in massive debt. Order a moratorium on home
foreclosures and evictions. Enact economic policy that will create
good-paying jobs and spend the money that's needed to do that. Make your
second term one for the history books.
Finally, thanks must be given to the Occupy movement
who, a year ago, set the tone of this election year by getting everyone
to talk about the 1% vs. 99%. It inspired Obama and his campaign to
realize that there was a huge popular sentiment against what the wealthy
have done to the country and there was something wrong if just 400 rich
guys owned more than 160 million Americans combined
(all those moochers and bums). This led to Romney's "47%" remarks and
THAT was the beginning of the end of his campaign. Thank you Mother
Jones for releasing that secret tape,
and thank you to the minimum wage worker who placed a camera on the
serving buffet next to the candle. This morning's headline in the
Washington Post says it all: "At Romney headquarters, the defeat of the 1 percent."
Thank you Sandra Fluke for enduring the insults hurled at you and then
becoming an important grassroots leader against the war on women. Thank
you Todd Akin for...well, for just being you. Thank you CEOs of Chrysler
and GM for coming out forcefully against the Republican(!) candidate,
saying he lived in "some parallel universe" when he lied about Jeep.
Thank you Governor Christie for your new bromance with Obama. You know,
you really didn't have to!
And you, Mother Nature, with all your horrific damage,
death and destruction you caused last week, you became, ironically, the
undoing of a Party that didn't believe in you or your climate changing
powers.
Perhaps they'll believe now.
Once again, thanks to all of you who brought a
nonvoter to the polls. In a last minute effort to get Obama an extra
million votes he wasn't counting on, I enjoyed talking and texting with
your loved ones and friends yesterday who weren't going to vote - but
then changed their minds after a little nudge and some TLC ("Damn!
Michael Moore? I'm getting in to car right now to go vote.").
To my fellow Americans, I think you'll agree: it was nice to wake up this morning in the United States of America.
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