Here's an idea: let's find something we can fight each other about so that we can waste our will on each other!!
That's sure to win elections for us!
I like your spirit! When are you going to run for office? :-)
We need more fighters like you leading us to victory in the great state of California.
I'm pumped
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I hear ya..
I need to check out the slate of initiatives coming up the next couple elections, I know there are quite few in the hopper already ..
As a former Californian who left the state last year and now resides in Florida, I've watched quietly from the sidelines and said nothing. But I must respond to the above-quoted statement, because it sums things up perfectly.
The outcomes of the props is a tremendous disappointment... but all the doom and gloomers are missing the point. After the dust has settled, the reality is that things are not worse in California. They simply aren't any better. A massive attempt was made to improve things, and it didn't pan out. The enemy managed to maintain the status-quo... but it had to fight tooth and nail just to accomplish that. That is the lesson to be learned from this -- that the enemy is on the ropes and fighting for its survival.
Yesterday's battle was lost... but it is just one battle in a much larger war. And the truth is that the enemy was forced to use a great deal of its ammunition just to win this one battle. The enemy managed to survive, but it is weakened. Therefore, the next battle against it must be pressed even harder, forcing it to expend more ammunition just to stay alive. If this strategy is followed over time, the enemy will eventually succomb. But it will never succomb if you lose heart after this one battle and don't continue fighting the war.
The enemy is a very strong opponent, and you cannot expect him to drop from a knock-out punch in one single election. But the enemy is on the ropes, and what you must do is simply keep punching him until he eventually weakens and falls. The enemy is counting on you to despair that he didn't fall from one punch and that you'll throw in the towel and walk away. And that's the only way he can win, if you give up and leave him standing.
Don't walk away. Keep landing those punches, keep forcing the enemy to expend all his energy trying to stay on his feet. The enemy simply cannot remain standing if you force him to put all of his energy and effort into prohibiting reform and maintaining the status-quo. Stay on the offensive and keep him on the defensive.
Remember: this election was not about the enemy launching an offensive against us. It was about the enemy fighting off an offensive launched against its stronghold. It managed to fend off the attack, but it didn't gain any ground. Put all the defeated props on the ballot again next time. Force the enemy to squander all its money and resources into fighting them all over again. Keep the enemy on the defensive. Eventually, you'll wear the enemy down and deplete it resources... just as Reagan wore down the Soviet Union. It takes time and it takes patience, but it can be done if you simply stay the course.
I don't think you understand the Leftist ideal out here in California. The Soviet Union isn't an abomination to be avoided in their eyes; it's the Left's ideal.
Bloody hell! The damned L.A. City Council took a frickin' trip to Cuba a couple of years ago to sit at Fidel Castro's knee and "learn how to better manage" Los Angeles!!