I wish I could eat what my girlfriend feed her cats!
organic tuna and free range chicken (mmMurray...)

and NOT all gay people are rich educated and without children to feed and care for, what the hell.

you (tizzie) are just being sucked in the grand plan to pitch one against each other.

This country may be the United States of America, but ultimately its people are for themself only, divided and very proud of their selfishsness.

There are some exceptions, of course.
So be it, stop thinking in the frame of "them" and "us".

I invite you and Dana's readers to read the latest entry
of the One Leader, The Great Leader.

http://www.numberonehitsong.com/santino/

Au contraire! I'm just throwing out one response - a highly emotional response, but I can certainly understand the emotions of the writer.

My own rant might be against everyone who lumps all of the people in the "red states" together - as this writer does. Or maybe I'd rant against the conciliators, who think we should try to overcome our differences with our GOP overlords.

So pick a rant, any rant. There's enough to go around.

Hey, where's Reeves?

Agreed. The red states were still really close, as this map shows.

And, (addressing the anonymous letter-writer), have some fucking respect for people who are struggling to get by in places like West Virginia...or any of the myriad places across the nation where the economy is tanking and the bills aren't getting paid. Read "Nickel and Dimed", for crying out loud. Just because your rich liberal ass is doing okay doesn't mean everyone in the country is. Show some empathy, for Chrissakes.

Don't blame them for the Democrats' failure to connect with them on moral issues. They voted, and they voted sincerely. Their politics may not align with yours, but that's no reason to dismiss their humanity.

hey, i'm here, just not a whole lot to say. but i will add this: all these people talking about having "empathy" for the poor impoverished bush voter have got it wrong. the poor and impoverished bush voter in the deep south does not give a flying fuck about our empathy. empathy will not help him, because he's voting out of hatred and fear of The Other, of us. our empathy would be interpreted as just more elitism. the rich bush voter is voting his economic interests, and i don't fault him for that. it's selfish, but at least it makes sense. it's the middle class southern voter that might swing democratic, but only if you can give him a reason to go against the tide in local communities. my family members are not evil people, they are really nice people in fact, but they unapologetically vote for a platform that is demonstrably damaging to their own interests, and the best interest of the majority. they do this because the right has convinced them that us lefties are trying to enforce our values on them. there is no way we can counter this lie, because it's one they want to believe in. this works great in the south, which see itself as victimized by the civil war. this is their revenge. i've spent four years pointing out every hideous bush policy, every catastrophic mistake, every costly giveaway with facts, figures, bells and whistles, and i have not changed a single mind. it's simple, they'd rather be told a nice lie than an ugly truth. how do you fight an alternate reality? their belief in their victimhood is as strong as their belief in their god, and they aren't giving up on either. what's worse, even if the press decided to take seriously its duty as the so-called fourth estate and finally for god's sake call a lie a lie, they wouldn't believe it anyway because of the myth of liberal media bias. we're screwed.

The purple map is verrrry misleading, because it fails to take population into account. That's why the whole thing is more of a reddish than a purple.

If population density is displayed using the darkness of each color, suddenly the regionalism jumps out again. One such map is here.

It's time to get mad, and time to make a display of coastal economic power. It's also time to figure out how to split the right wing coalition at its natural fissures. The die-hard red states make up only 35% of the US population. They have help in high places, by people who couldn't give less of a shit about God and Apple Pie and are in it for the money. THOSE guys can be turned, and even 10% of them would swing the country blue.

What the Democrats need to do is clearly make the case that these economic issues -- and the other issues they've been hammering on -- are moral issues.

Make the case that it's not moral to lie and send people to their deaths.

Make the case that it's not moral to aid the outsourcing of jobs.

Make the case that it's not moral to award ginormous no-bid contracts to cronies.

Make the case that it's not moral to deny rights to other people.

Make the case that it's not moral to lock people up without saying why.

I could continue, but you get the drift.

I just wrote the world's angriest screed. My anger is directed towards the DNC establishment for not counting the votes, and towards everybody who isn't making a bigger issues out of the voting machine fiascos.

I've totally lost my mind; my excitement at the inner-city turnout I saw last week has been replaced by rage.

i just think that we are fucked now as a notion because that sock-puppet has four more years.

thank you

nation*

haha! that's the most positive and realistic attitude i've seen anyone take since our hopes and dreams were squashed last week. fuck it, how do you show a born again jesus freak the light? i just wish i was a well off gay guy in new york. instead, i'm an overworked, uninsured woman in tucson, arizona, with family in iran, the next target. suddenly, it's not so funny anymore.

Mitra, you must be scared witless for your family - I would be.