Lots we BETTER do, like make sure our elections will be honest and accessible

Fund good DEM candidates

Keep up barrage of LTTE pointing out the many ways the GOP is screwing Americans now and those in the future with the huge deficits they are passing on to future generations

Start serious dialog on alternative energy

Teach our kids that they can be creative problem solvers instead of bumps relying on corporate entertainment and food. Take the kids outside and learn to garden!

Make sure your voice is heard. When you speak up, it gives courage and validation to others who agree but may have been afraid to actually voice dissent. When we make a wave, it creates lots of ripples.

Go to local school board meetings and make sure the Far Right Religious Fanatics have not taken over and put their own agenda in place at your public schools. Protect the futures of kids in your community by making sure they get the educations they will need. Do this whether you have kids of your own or not. WE ALL have an interest in making sure kids do not get tied into intellectual straight-jackets by fundies who want to mold their minds by limiting their education while they are young and defenseless. Work to keep public schools secular and make sure kids are getting accurate science!

Help an elder navigate the mazes set in place by the GOP to assure profits for the insurance lobby.

Advocate locally for the homeless

Attend county board meetings to make sure you local board is not in the hip pocket of corporate land developers or industries that pollute, and working against the interests of the population of your area.

Attend services at a church/temple/synagogue/mosque other than one you may normally attend. Learn a bit about the real values of other cultures. Build bridges instead of letting the GOP fan flames of fear and hatred.

Support a Little League, Soccer, Swim team, or other community recreation activities for kids. Get out and make it work in your community.

Look into volunteer opportunities in your area which match your interests and priorities. Patient advocacy for those in long term care is good. Register people to vote. Organize community gardens. Teach someone to read. See if there are folks in your area who need a ride for errands now and then, and find out if they need a lift to the polls on election day too!

The GOP had been building barriers between us all for years. Time to rip the walls down and join up with our neighbors to walk the walk of our true values. The more we do, the more we will inspire others to join or lead new ventures. From all that community building will come stronger communities AND stronger candidates for future elections.

The GOP wants us sitting alone in our little huts, feeling helpless and alienated. Fuck that shit! Get outside and get involved with your fellow Americans. Offer a hand in friendship and sincere help.

Nothing we can do about things until November? Oh, there are so many way to nudge things along to a better outcome in November. Be a liberal ambassador. Walk the walk, with confidence and conviction. Show those on the fence what a liberal really is. Make a liar out of Rush and O'Reilly and the other hate spewing louts who have worked to define you! Go out and define yourself. Show people that there is a difference between greedy, slick GOP rats who pretend to be good ol boys and LIBERALS who really have solutions and intend to make things better.

Between now and November, there is a nation to save.

to get your tacit approval to opening ANWR to drilling and shutting up about the obscene profits the oil companies are making, here's a suggestion:

Send that money to a worthy DEM candidate.

We gotta take the Hill if things are gonna get fixed for We The People.

And let everybody know you will send that $100 to DEM candidates! With any luck, news of your plans may make the GOP whores on the Hill abandon this cheap stunt that would only add to the deficit our grandkids will be paying off. If they are dumb enough to send you the bribe, make sure others hear about what you do with the money.

Can you imagine what could be accomplished if a million of us pulled this stunt?

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