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First, a little item to illustrate my point. Charles Jaco had his own show mornings in St. Louis, and while not a "lefty", he was daily skewering Bush on the war, making fun of neo-cons, Fox, and made lots of sense. He is on a station which the rest of the day has O'Reilly, Hannity, Ingraham, some jerk named Glenn Beck, etc. So now they forced him to take 2nd billing with some dime-a-dozen arrogant neo-con who loves to hear himself talk. I'm sure the loyal repug audience who listens to the rest of these bozos on that station were going ape-sh!t over Jaco having his show to himself to bash Bunnypants. But when he took callers there never was a dem who called, never, always the wing nuts. He always made them look stupid, but he needed callers who took staunch sides with what he was saying. So Jaco will be gone soon, and we LET THEM win another battle. We are too lazy to pick up a phone and make calls the way all the morAns do. They win. I NEVER heard dems call in to his show. He did not have a wacko screener. It's pitiful...we have no urgency. If these dark times does not get us off our butts to pick up a g-d phone and make a simple call to a host fighting what we are fighting, we desrve to lose the airwaves. I mean it. Had he even recieved 50-50 on calls, the station may not be forcing him out. In less than a month Jaco will be gone, I will bet a week's wage. Another battle the fascist MINORITY wins, because they are VOCAL and we are not. In case you are wondering, I am drivig to work at the time of the show, and I do not own a cell phone. To make my point again, I feel that if we have a leader or public figure we can point to, who is a fighter, we get happy and then we get LETHARGIC. The argument "he is fighting for me" has been a dem standard and has gotten us nowhere. Think of it this way: He is fighting FOR me. And that is the problem. We have to feel and act as if no one is fighting for us, whether we see it or not. As long as dems feel someone is fighting FOR them, they don't pick up the fight themselves. It is so obvious. Do you think there are no dems who listened to Jaco's show? BUT YET NO CALLS. Pick up the g-d phone...how frikkin hard is it? And that is just for starters. The unspoken problem? There is not enough ex-GOPers in our party. In other words, there is not enough vitriol, nastiness, indignation. I really don't know what accounts for the lethargy. Are people waiting for swastikas before they start fighting? When you hear about republican stupidity do you quietly roll your eyes? Or do you snarl in visceral, physical disgust, with your fists clenched? The problem I see is most dems are the eye-rollers. Real, genuine, motivating disgust and revulsion is too much energy for dems to muster. They have others "fighting for them", anyway.
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