Pssst...pass it around.

[Mythsaje]

Dear Average Republican

There is NO "liberal agenda" but the shared interest of liberals who want to see things get better for everyone. You, your parents, and the guy who bags groceries down at the Piggly-Wiggly. Liberals want to see you with enough money to buy groceries, pay off your house, and put at least one gas-efficient vehicle in your garage.

It's not an agenda. It's people hoping for the best for other people.

It's about hoping that your Uncle John, who's been farming the same plot of land for the last 40 years, doesn't lose his farm because he falls off his tractor and breaks his leg and can't pay his doctor bill.It's about hoping that you have some options when your town's biggest employer goes belly-up 'cuz it can't compete with the textile factory in China.

It's about making sure you get paid enough that you don't have to take two or three jobs just to make ends meet. So you can spend more time with your family...so you can play catch with your boys, or take them fishing on weekends, or take your little girl to the local swimming hole and teach her how to swim.

It's not an agenda to want the best for people. It's just humanity. It's about being a good neighbor, even if that neighbor lives half a country away.

Ask a liberal what empathy is...it's about understanding where someone else is coming from. And most of us try very hard, even if we don't agree.

Being a liberal isn't about making fun of God, or your beliefs about him. Most liberals take the Sermon on the Mount to heart. They try to live the teachings of Jesus, even if some aren't sure he's really the Son of God. Thomas Jefferson called him the World's Greatest Moral Philosopher. You'll find very few liberals who'd disagree with that.

It's because of liberals that your ten year olds get to go to school rather than being forced to work in factories for spare change. It's because of liberals that you can trust your workplace to be safe and free of unexpected dangers. It is because of liberals that, should you be injured at work, you can expect fair medical treatment and compensation for your lost work.

That's what we do. We try to look out for everybody. Even the people who hate us.We don't have an agenda. We don't take marching orders from anyone. We do what we do because we believe in people.We believe in you.

All we ask is that you begin to believe in us.

[Viva_La_Revolution]

1. Bravo Mythsaje!

[Syrinx]

2. I'm kicking that mother out of the stadium!

;)

[proud2BlibKansan]

3. AWESOME!!

May I borrow it for an email group?

[Mythsaje]

4. Be my guest...

That's why I wrote it originally.

[silverweb]

5. Beautifully said!

Thank you. I'll be sharing this with everyone on my list.

:hi:

[alittlelark]

6. I discussed this w/ a neighbor last week...

You said it in a more intuitive way than I was able to.


THANK YOU.

[mrcheerful]

7. Sorry sense don't work on the Bushbots

They believe that liberals have an agenda, gay freedom=trying to make their kids gay. Separation of Church and state = the liberals want to close our Church's and make our kids devil worshipers. Freedom of speech = the liberals want to force porn into our homes so liberals can molest our children. Liberals support unions = they want to make sure lazy workers get paid top dollar and not be fired for not working. Equality for all = the liberals want to take jobs from white men and give them to non white women. Empathy for their fellow man = liberals want to open up the prison doors and let out all the undesirables lose in their back yards. The list is endless, but this is the very stuff bushbots have listened to since 1979. These are deep founded beliefs and you won't get past them.

[Mythsaje]

8. The bushbots may be unreachable

but there are many others who have ridden the fence long enough to recognize the splinters in their asses by now.

[rman]

13. actually i think it's easy to make m think, to sow doubt in their minds

Many don't even know Repubs oppose nationalized health care, while they themselves do support it.
If nothing else it should make them realize this is an issue that their reps never inform them about.

The main problem is that they don't hear anything else but what the RW (by means of FOX, hate radio, etc) tells them.
"working on them" might change that - not "working on them" surely won't change anything.

[marions ghost]

14. I think these deep founded beliefs

will die a quick death when the full implications of the economic downturn hits home. These people are among the most vulnerable and their delusions will no longer sustain them.

[ClayZ]

9. Absolutely Brilliant! Thank you... KICK

I just sent off seven copies!


Thank you again!





:kick:

[rucky]

10. Why do you hate America? n/t

[Skittles]

11. I have always found it ironic that what WE want benefits THEM too

they just don't get it

[greiner3]

12. I agree, and try to live my life according to these principles;

However, when I lived in Virginia and a few other red states, ideas like these are called communist and athiestic. You make a great appeal with your speech. My fear is it will appeal mainly to those who already live in blue states and are good weather Dems in the first place. Nice words even thus!

[drm604]

15. Excellent.

You should send this as a letter to the editor. But I do have some friendly suggestions. You can take them or reject them as you see fit.

I think I might use a different term than "swimming hole". It sounds like you think you're addressing a bunch of hicks. It's not quite as bad as "cement pond" but it still seems to be addressing a stereotype. I'd use "swimming pool" if I was going to talk about swimming.

I'm also not sure that I'd use the gender stereotypes. I'm pretty sure that there are daughter's of Republicans who play catch or go fishing, and I'm positive that there are sons who go swimming. Maybe you could just say something like "spend more time with your children doing the things parents and children do together" and let them imagine what they would like to be doing.

[Mythsaje]

24. Unless you live within about 50 miles of a city

you most likely don't have a swimming pool, or don't use it if you do. I grew up in a place like this, so I have a little background on it.

[drm604]

25. Fair enough.

So people do still use the term "swimming hole"?

[Mythsaje]

26. Good question...

We did when I was a kid. :shrug: But that WAS a while ago.

[drm604]

27. Maybe you could just say something like "take them swimming"

without mentioning exactly where.

[Wordie]

16. A beautiful post. Thank you, Mythsaje. K&R

[marions ghost]

17. excellent , very well said

:applause: I think this would be a great message for emailing. It would also make a good flyer.

These Bush supporters on the lower end of the economic totem pole are already feeling the first effects of the economic iceberg. Whether they realize they're on the Titanic yet, I'm not sure. But when that awful realization slaps them cold in the face, they will just have to jump overboard and swim. The fat cats will already have taken the lifeboats.

When they realize they have been abandoned, this is the population that will ultimately have nothing but contempt for the exploitationists who led them astray. They will be hungry for truth and looking for a lifeline when they wake up from their intoxicated stupor. And what the OP wrote is what we should be ready to offer them.

[Hubert Flottz]

18. Living in a democracy is our agenda.

Invading every American citizen's home and privacy is the GOP's agenda.

GOP = KGB

[Straight Shooter]

19. Your post is a breath of fresh air amongst the negative posts I've seen.

This doesn't mean that I don't agree with many of the perceptions expressed in the negative posts, but it's the positive approach which adds momentum to my desire to keep striving to change what is wrong, not just for myself and those who share my ideals and agenda, but also for those with whom I currently vehemently disagree. For better or worse, we must take the high road and consistently point out that, just as Jesus pointed out, whatsoever we do unto the least of ourselves, we do unto Him (and ultimately each other).

I would rather live in an America where the opposition one day silently signals a "thank you" to me for fighting for this country, than to live in an America where half of us are screaming, "We told you so!" as we all go down in flames.

Excellent, Mythsaje.

:patriot:

[Mythsaje]

31. I think we get bound up in negatives all too often...

I don't have the energy to wade through the shit all the time.

[Straight Shooter]

32. LOL!

So true, so true. :7

[Shine]

35. I agree.

I get turned off by all the polarization.

[Lindsay]

20. Very well said.

Thanks for posting it.

[seito]

21. Well said

Thank you

[TahitiNut]

22. Excellent. More ...

It's about people working and wanting their labors to benefit the least well-off, not the most well-off. It's about people wanting the farmer's market to stand up against the Wal*Mart slave labor produce. It's about telling employers "love it or leave it" - telling people who want to employ Chinese to move to China. It's about believing that any marketplace is better with a broader array of choices, including the marketplace of ideas. It's about honoring our workers and parents even after they're no longer able to benefit the profiteers. It's about believing that profiteering from human suffering is wrong ... and that's not morally relativistic.

It's about believing that, in a world full of problems, love and commitment between two people isn't one of them.

It's about believing that dropping bombs isn't "pro-life"; that state-sanctioned homicide isn't "pro-life"; and that a government able to impose laws on a woman's womb is just as empowered to require an abortion as prohibit one.

It's liberals who want your ten-year-old to be able to go skinny-dipping in the local creek without dying of cancer later because of it.

It's about knowing that a helping hand never resembles a fist.

It's about knowing that the Seven Deadly Sins is not a good party platform.

[Maestro]

23. Fantastic!

Liberals watch out for everyone; not just the "inner circle" who love to blame the ills of society on individuals who just "don't work hard enough."

[ooglymoogly]

28. well said kikn nom

[frankly_fedup2]

29. I didn't know there were still "Piggly Wiggly's" open. I haven't seen

a Piggly Wiggly since I was a small child.

[Mythsaje]

30. They had one here in Washington

that closed about fifteen years ago. The last I heard there were still some around in the South, but, not having ever been there, I don't know.

[frankly_fedup2]

40. I live in the South, and like you, I haven't seen one around here since

I was a child of six or so.

In one of my favorite movies, "Driving Miss Daisy," the first time Holt gets her to ride in the car was when she was going to the "Piggly Wiggly." That's the only other time I have heard of the franchise other than it being around when I was a child.

[Mr_Spock]

33. This is a great post

One of the best I've seen here - speaks for me and what it means to be a liberal...

[Shine]

34. Great post, Mythsaje. Well done.

:applause:

btw, I REALLY like your avatar. ;) Good choice, my dragon comrade. :thumbsup:


:hi:

[Mythsaje]

37. Thanks...but I decided to change my avatar just now...

It's an IM icon from my new serial launching on April 14th. When I realized I could upload it, I decided to use it instead.

I do like the dragon, but I see an advantage in using one that's completely unique.

[Shine]

38. Well I won't take it personally that you changed it. :)

and I STILL think of myself as completely unique, nonetheless.

Your new is very nice, too. Good luck with your launch!
:hi:

[Name removed]

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[GreenPartyVoter]

39. *two thumbs up*