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dksmAs always Daily Kos has it best:
http://dailykos.com/story/2004/11/4/153311/541
So I've heard a few people say they are moving to Canada (and a few to Australia which is odd because PM Howard is GW's bitch as much as Blair is). My answer to them? Why move to another country when you can stay here and fight for yours? The key is not to take your ball and go home (or Canada) when the going gets tough. The key is to stay and try harder. If at first you don't succeed and all that. Four years ago we had no infrastructure to fight back, hell two years ago we didn't. Now we have Moveon.org, Air America, Democracy for America, Daily Kos, Democratic Underground, and on and on.
When ever the Bush Administration does something you don't like, fight them on it, call them on it, work to change it. Write your Senators and Representatives, make them accountable to you. Sign petitions, volunteer your time, write letters to the newspaper. The campaign isn't over, it's just four years longer.
I will never forget the end of 2002 and I was felling alone in my views and depressed about the outcome of this country. Then I heard about Moveon.org. And there I found people were as outraged as myself. Then in 2003 I heard Howard Dean speak on TV and there were my concerns being addressed. And it grew until we were 56 million people all together voting to make a change. That doesn't change just because we didn't win.
So don't move to Canada, move to a swing state!
http://dailykos.com/story/2004/11/4/153311/541
So I've heard a few people say they are moving to Canada (and a few to Australia which is odd because PM Howard is GW's bitch as much as Blair is). My answer to them? Why move to another country when you can stay here and fight for yours? The key is not to take your ball and go home (or Canada) when the going gets tough. The key is to stay and try harder. If at first you don't succeed and all that. Four years ago we had no infrastructure to fight back, hell two years ago we didn't. Now we have Moveon.org, Air America, Democracy for America, Daily Kos, Democratic Underground, and on and on.
When ever the Bush Administration does something you don't like, fight them on it, call them on it, work to change it. Write your Senators and Representatives, make them accountable to you. Sign petitions, volunteer your time, write letters to the newspaper. The campaign isn't over, it's just four years longer.
I will never forget the end of 2002 and I was felling alone in my views and depressed about the outcome of this country. Then I heard about Moveon.org. And there I found people were as outraged as myself. Then in 2003 I heard Howard Dean speak on TV and there were my concerns being addressed. And it grew until we were 56 million people all together voting to make a change. That doesn't change just because we didn't win.
So don't move to Canada, move to a swing state!
