It's time to build

I've started to become less pissed off about the election. I'm still pissed off but I'm starting to realize that I shouldn't let those people out there ruin our lives. The most recent copy of The Stranger has an article called The Urban Archipelago that states this idea perfect. So, fuck 'em, we don't need them. We'll still have to pay for their wars and we're going to be the target of the terrorism caused by their wars. But we have the money. We should start doing everything possible to reduce the taxes we pay to the federal government and raise the state and local taxes in our cities and states. Let's make our lives better and theirs worse. Without all of the money that those of us in the Blue States send to the Red States they will live even worse lives. And they can get stupider if they want by lowering schooling standards. We can show them that we're right by making our cities even better. Let's create a virtual country with the rest of the blue cities and/or blue states. We should seriously think about creating a coalition between certain cities and do things at the same time. If we want to make gay marriage legal we should all do it at the same time. If we want to raise wellfare benefits and help out the disadvantaged we should do it at the same time. Lets scrap the federal wellfare system. Let the poor people in red counties suffer. Let's make the public schools in the blue counties the best in the world. Let's build more universities here too. Let's create connections between our virtual country and the EU and the rest of the world. Maybe the terrorists will learn that they really should be attacking the Red States and not us.

And as for the Democratic Party I don't think we should try to pick up those fucking retarded people's votes. I was one of those people who thought that we could win the presidency by giving up our moral values until we have enough votes but I don't believe that anymore. This country as a whole is just too fucking conservative. We give up to much by moving to the right. I don't think it's realistic to win that way anymore and still be true to our beliefs. I think we're too scared about things like Roe vs. Wade being overturned and a constitutional amendment to ban gay marriage. We shouldn't be. If it does happen then it's just going to cause a huge backlash in our favor. Do you really think that if Roe vs. Wade gets overturned there won't be millions of women in the streets demanding Bush's head? Roe vs. Wade will not be overturned without a least a small civil war. If Bush bans gay marriage then we'll just make laws to make it legal in our states or cities. What's Bush gonna do?

I realize that some of the stuff that I'm advocating isn't realistic. But I think we should at least try to build a better world for outselves to the exclusion of the people in conservative places. Building ties between Seattle, L.A., San Francisco, Portland, Chicago, N.Y. and Boston could be a good first step in making a stand for our values.