Imagine for a moment if everyone put a big sign in their window that said whom they voted for. Just by driving around your neighborhood you could easily see if votes were counted accurately or not. Just imagine, maybe your crazy right-wing neighbors actually voted for somebody else. Maybe your neighborhood isn't as blue, or as red, or as purple, as you thought. Maybe people just THINK that there's a certain level of support for certain candidates.
The establishment has a hell of a lot to lose if a non-establishment candidate gets elected. A HELL of a lot. And they're running scared, and they have a great advantage in terms of money, and power, and connections. They will stop at nothing to stay in power.
But we have the power of the majority. Their one great battle tactic is to convince the majority that they are, in fact, the minority so they will be scared and not speak up. As in 2000. As in 2004. As in the run-up to the Iraq war. As in post-9/11. That we're some crazy fringe when in actuality, we are the majority. They are the crazy fringe. We have the power of numbers.
We are not blue against red, race against race, male against female, liberal against conservative; we are not bitter enemies in wars of abortion, religion, the environment, immigration, sexual orientation, labor, national defense, or any of a hundred other points of division and conquering.
We all want our children to grow up healthy, our jobs to be secure, our standard of living to be comfortable, our streets and houses safe at night, our work force educated and innovative and productive, our diplomats respected, our childhood golden and our retirement years silver; we all want a fair and supportive and honest and hard-working and non-intrusive and forward-thinking government that is seen and felt only when we need it but has always planned for those moments, like a wise and benevolent elder relative.
Our differences are only what make us unique, not what divide us; we must not let the elite and frightened minority that rules us shatter our strength of numbers.
We can take back this country. We must.
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