"Don't Let the Bastards Sap Your Vitality!" MUST READ!

Dancing in the Dark
By Michael Ventura, Austin Chronicle

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It's after a defeat that you find out what you're made of. Cry if you must, cry it all out, but don't let the bastards sap your vitality.
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My friend Deborah said today: "Bush manipulated through fear, and the people who voted for him are filled with fear. We're buying into it somehow. He generated it, we voted against it, but now we're creating it. That's something that leaves us vulnerable. We're not any different from the other people." She's right. Bush's re-election has driven many into a despairing fear. Which is just where he wants you to be. That fear you feel inside – that's Bush himself , inside you. Act out of fear and the fear will increase. Courage doesn't mean not being afraid; courage means doing what's necessary in spite of your fear, even because of it.

Much, much more. (Kind of long. . . .)

This is the best thing I've read since 11/2. It covers just about everything we've been up against. Take a look.

www.alternet.org/story/20469/

is the government, the free press, the political parties. They own all the guns so fortunately that temptation is sapped too, thank God. They have sapped very material things and many powerful institutions.

The courage to be aware of that involves a great sorrow, not moral weakness.

The poor saps are those who want to change our American Eagle into the Bushco Corporate Cultic Coalition ostrich.

I just used this as a reply to a Democrat who sent me the Fuck The South letter. Good article, thanks.

"Don't demonize those who disagree with you."

We don't need to become haters.

And there is fact, hope for us.