One Month (actually 6 weeks) After

Whew. I know, I know. What more could we have done, and WHAT NOW?

First, let me address the what-more-could-we-have-done: this was the hardest bit to swallow, because at first pondering, it seems nothing. I mean, look what we DID!!!

What now.
Do we (um, the Left) get more conservative, or do we rally ourselves and our base more?

These questions keep me up at night. Like, for real. I have dreams about mass voter e-fraud, counts gone into oblivion in the cyber ether, well paid hackers slowly adding votes for people. Conspiracy theory? The only thing that makes it a conspiracy theory is that it theorizes that a group of people (which, we should gently remind ourselves is what-- under U.S. and state law-- corporations define themselves as) plan for a common desired outcome. So really, contrary to what "conspiracy theory" may sound like, there is nothing paranoid or knee-jerk about it, despite that it might conjure up angry images of Oliver Stone.

So what now. Well, for starters, everyone should listen to Air America. In the NYC area, that is a sweet 1190 AM on your radio. If you live in other parts of the country, go to airamericaradio.com. Why? Because it keeps you informed about what is going on, and why the new initiatives of the Bush administration are shocking. Is this one-sided? Well, I like to say, why give equal time to Hitler? National news organizations are not doing their job; this was particularly true during the election, during the Iraq war, and is still true. Traditional journalism has given way to simply cutting and pasting the press release and sound bites of the White House, or whatever third party is at hand. So, yes-- go listen and be vigilant.

Secondly, no, we do not get more conservative. We simply have to embrace more widely and modify our tactics. We have to stop only preaching to the choir, and actually start bringing our message and "Blue State Awareness" to the Red States. Without this effort, we will only continue to lose to the spread of Karl Rove's Empire of Evil.

Accordingly, and thirdly, look into what long-range groups you can become a part of. One group that I have joined is a NYC-based spin-off of people who went down to Florida election weekend to canvass through America Coming Together (ACT). You can contact them through the NYC2FLAINFO group at Yahoo! Groups.



To join the NYC2FLAINFO group, please visit
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NYC2FLAINFO

GO NOW!!!