Slobodan Milosevic?

[kent mueller]

Bush won by three and a half million votes. A county by county snapshot
shows that Kerry carried just about every city nationwide, small, medium and
large.  We're not a red and blue country so much as a blue and purple one.
By 136,000 votes Bush won reelection, even though the popular vote spread
was 3.5 million. It almost went in the opposite direction of 2000, wherein
Gore won the popular vote by 500,000 and Bush won the electoral vote. It
would have been sweet if Kerry had swung Ohio. The Right would have been
outraged but helpless. The Electoral college would soon be reformed to more
accurately reflect one man - one vote. Now the right controls everything,
though five votes short of a 60% carte blanche in the Senate.

If the Northeast could do a peaceable secession that would be great, here in
the upper Great Lakes, it's really dicey and seems to be tilting slowly red.
Kerry won Wisconsin and Minnesota by barely 10 and 14 thousand votes
respectively, Bush carried Iowa by just under 10 thousand. Don't forget our
solid West Coast buddies, which could eventually become yet a third country.
Now the right is full of so much gall they'd probably fight like hell
against a peaceable succession, but they might just as well be tired of us.

I'm one of those people who have muttered about moving to Canada. I
seriously suspect I'll do it if both houses of congress return a GOP
majority in 2006. I think that's the sign this country has gone finally,
fatally, to the right and there's no turning back.

It's worth raising the flags of succession and brain-drain to temper the
enthusiasm of the right.

Kent 

> From: "Ghetta Life" <ghetta_outta at hotmail.com>
> Date: Fri, 05 Nov 2004 17:47:48 +0000
> To: vze422fs at verizon.net, pynchon-l at waste.org
> Subject: Re: Slobodan Milosevic?
> 
> 
> 
>> From: joeallonby <vze422fs at verizon.net>
>> 
>> Not all of us. I cannot tell you how many times I have heard the word
>> "secession" spoken in all seriousness in the past three days. Bush and the
>> bible-thumpers have managed to alienate an entire region of the country.
>> That region contains many of the most industrious, best educated,
>> innovative, and progressive people in the world. Where would America be
>> without New England and the Mid-Atlantic States?
>> 
>> We are sick and tired of being insulted. We are about to take our ball and
>> go home. Count the dead from Massachusetts and New York in Iraq and
>> Afghanistan. Count the dead from Massachusetts and New York who were on
>> those planes and in those buildings. The terrorists didn't attack Kansas.
>> They attacked us.
>> 
>> Now, we are insulted on a daily basis by the very countrymen for whom we
>> took those blows. They call us Eastern Intellectual Elite as if that were
>> an epithet. They even make fun of our accents as if pronouncing words
>> correctly were a sign of weakness. So, let them try fighting a war without
>> our technological, financial, and military expertise. See how far they get.
> 
> Don't forget the other coast too.
> 
> The funny thing about your post is that it mirrors what I've been told are
> the sentiments of the "heartland" and the South.  They feel denigrated by
> the superior-minded intellectuals who scoff at their corny values.  There is
> a deep divide at work (being well used by Rove & Co.), but don't forget that
> a swing state is just that.  There is a middle, and there is a place for
> common ground.  And don't forget: It was a VERY close election, so only a
> little movement is necesary to regain control.  But it'll have to be by
> attracting, not dividing.  Dividing is their tool.
> 
> Ghetta
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