An Open Letter to Democrats

I was going to save this until after the elections, on the premise that Democrats actually pull their collective feet from their asses and win a majority. While I am still hopeful of their success, there remains a distressing and needling reminder of past opportunities, passed over in incompetence. In short, the message I wish to give all Democrats in present and future leadership roles is:


DO NOT FUCK THIS UP!


You are being handed a gift, an entitlement if you will. It is far better than the piss poor hand-outs used to keep the poor from storming your homes in the middle of the night with pitchforks and torches. The country, right this very second, now sees that Republican leadership is a complete and total fuck-up at handling the very issues they have always been entrusted with, namely, war and economics.

Following 9/11, a reminder continually given us by the War President, our citizens were rightfully frightened, terrorized, by the acceptance of America into a world paradigm of daily terror and death. Everyone just knew the Republicans would kick the requisite ass we asked them to because that’s what Republicans live to do. They just love themselves a good ol’ fashioned war.

The problem was and still is, they apparently turned into pussies along the way and are still fighting the same old-style type of war Clinton warned against when he re-structured the military. Worse still, they sent our boys and girls off to avenge the mistakes of Daddy Bush, thinking Americans would just go along for the ride on the basis that Saddam was a dick.

What they didn’t count on is the same thing the British didn’t understand in the 1770’s and what the USSR didn’t grasp in the 1970’s:

Empires do not win against a determined and occupied people.

So, fine, we all now know Iraq was a mistake we will pay for in the years to come. The past is not your problem at this point. The present and the future now rest in your hand and I am begging you not to fuck it up like everyone already expects you will.

If fortune smiles and Democrats win the Congress back, we all expect you will begin investigations into the mis-use and blatant abuse of power by Bush Co. That’s fine. Do that. I want the guilty to be held accountable.

However, for the sake of all you hold holy and especially for the lives of our daily-dying soldiers, DO NOT forget that we are at war and we need you to work to end it. Stop thinking about the 2008 elections, get Kerry, Gore, and Hillary under control, and focus on making this country right with the chance we are now giving you.

Do not think for one second you can take this disapproval of Republican administration for granted and use it as you see fit. No. It is a second, third, and fourth chance being handed to you all at once. Don’t fuck it up because there are even scarier elements waiting in the wings to offer a jaded American public an alternative to the status quo.

Do not force us into the position of looking elsewhere for leadership when the chance is being placed in your hands by a public weary of being told what to fear on a daily basis.

You are being warned even as you are being goaded into real action.

Don’t fuck it up. We, the people, will remember what you do right now.