don’t get mad get even. fuck ‘em. we’d have had a lot of work to do even if kerry had been elected. now that the election is over, let’s all admit that kerry is, like al gore, a weak-kneed politician — hardly the champion that we’d need to lift us out of this mess. did any of you ever *really* believe in john kerry? i didn’t. i just knew that having him in office would make our job easier. we’d have continued backsliding, but at a decreasing rate. democrat politicians can’t be trusted to accomplish anything, especially those that these party idiots have convinced to shoot for the centrist vote.

as i also said four years ago: ralph nader is wrong for the right reasons — we DO need a revolutionary change in the way things are done here. yeah, he’s an asshole, yeah, he shouldn’t have run, yeah, his timing was wrong, yeah, he’s partially to blame for the part of the mess. but his basic premise is spot-on. we’re not going to “win” anything (in the broader sense) until we take a rovian approach. we don’t need the middle; the middle can’t make up its puny mind. it never will. the middle will always split down the middle, by very virtue of its being the middle (see that logic?). we need a revolution, and it has to come from the very bottom. i was in a las vegas slum on saturday and knocked on the door of a young black woman, who stood there simultaneously talking to me, talking on her cellphone, and screaming at her three kids. i gave her my spiel and then she told me that she wasn’t registered.

george bush is not really the problem, he’s a manifestation of problems. a problem is that 33% of voters vote as evangelical christians. a problem is that some majority of Americans votes on terrorism and jingoism above jobs, above the environment, above civil liberties, above mercy, above knowledge, above race and gender equity. until we change these things, we will have this problem every four years, ad infinitum, will carp and pout on election night about these fuck-heads in [insert state name].

karl rove is not really an evil genius, he’s just the only political strategist in the country with a pair of nutz big enough to break from the center. it’s not machiavellian wizardry; it’s common fucking sense and good arithmetic. let’s stop giving the jackass more credit than he deserves.

so what’s up? power to the fucking people, that’s what’s up. i hear you saying, “easier said than done, rob. those people just feel disenfranchised, rob. they don’t feel like there’s anything to gain from participating in the system. they just don’t care. we’ve tried; they still won’t vote.”

well, shut up. that’s a facile excuse. we can’t hide behind it anymore.

so, boo hoo and sniffle. now wipe your snotty nose and get ready.