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Just here to give my fellow DUer's another wake up call.
And that is... it's working. My uncle's penis is becoming quite stiff again.
With the imposition of reality actually invading his fantasy world (the fundamentalist hateful bigoted limited capacity to think beyond his own immediate space and time world), and with an absolutely relentless effort on my part to open his eyes to reality, my Uncle's penis had been quite deflated recently.
You see he *IS* your typical die hard Bush/Republican voter.
He's a regular hard core church goer. Though he won't say it in the mixed company he holds quite bigoted views of different races, different cultures, different sexual orientations (though he's never been married and had very few female relations himself - all from what I can tell being non-sexual. And while he pretends to be very pious to his fellow church goers, he's quick to point out his lust for well endowed females.) He lives in a rural town and has a low paying dead-end manufacturing job that is always on the verge of threat to be moved elsewhere, to keep the lowly employees in line. They just moved his health insurance over to an HSA, which is not something a 53 year old with an $8.25 an hour job can manage very well, given his increasing number of health concerns.
I've had to work HARD to convince him that George Bush and the Republican party DO NOT represent his financial best interests, let alone civil liberties, rights, freedoms, and privacy. Don't think he cares much about the fate of the world (you know Armageddon just around the corner and all). And of course, the hateful bigotry is right up his alley so that's no bother.
Still, he's been coming around (or at least pretending to for my sake and to get me off his back).
But I have to tell you my friends, that the repugnicants and the Bush administration know how to play him like a fiddle. They've been winning elections like this for many years now, and it's a formula that continues to deliver.
Everything WE see through clearly being a stunt to shore up the base, works like a charm with him. If he didn't have a relentless relative shooting these stunts down to the best of my abilities, he'd be in a hypnotic stupor ready to pull the lever for every republican up for election.
Al Zarquwi being killed? HUGE viagra injection to my uncle. Of course I had to explain to him, AGAIN, that Zarquwi was originally in Northern Iraq, protected by the U.S. from being eliminated by Hussein, who hated al Queda. And that Bush had the opportunity to take him out before the Iraq invasion, but purposely choose not to, and that al queda only has a firm foot hold in Iraq BECAUSE of the U.S. invasion, etc.. etc.. etc..
The gay marriage stunt, the flag burning stunt, the war resolution stunt, even the recent Bush trip in to Baghdad. My uncle's boner was poking me in the damned eye over THAT little stunt. He couldn't wait to glow over how wonderful that was, and how that was going to be such a HUGE moral booster to the troops. LOL. Of course I did my best to deflate him AGAIN, by explaining that the troops are not particularly pleased to be coming to the realization that they were sent in there to be killed and maimed under false pretenses, without the proper equipment, with multiple deployments, and with reduced veterans benefits when they return.
Honestly, though I don't know if it's sticking. And even if it were, he's only one person, who has a relative that won't let up until he breaks free of his addiction to the republican party.
But he keeps looking for his next fix, and now that the November elections are coming, the Repugs are giving it to him in ample doses.
And as I've shown you, the sad thing is, as shallow, desperate, and futile as these republican stunts seem to us, they are working complete wonders on my Uncle. And if he is any indication of the typical republican base, he's going to be primed and ready to go by election day with a full bore raging hard-on to vote repugnicant. Many many months of hard work on my part are being obliterated by laughing repugnicants saying "You're massive does of reality are no match for what WE know about your Uncle's primitive animal brain".
We really have our work cut out for us folks. See repugs know there will be low voter turnout as usual in the midterms. So all they REALLY need to do is turn out their base. And folks, they are using a tried and true formula that from what I can see among one of these Kool-Aide drinkers in my own family, it's working.
The only way we can even hope to counter this is to do the seemingly impossible. And that is, to ensure a HUGE voter turnout. It has to be enough to offset the Kool-Aide drinking base, plus republican cheating and subterfuge. It is the only solution. We can't count on their base not turning out. They will be out, and out in droves, because Rove and friends are injecting that viagra as we speak and won't stop until after Nov '06.
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