I'm a straight male and I've been beating this worse then a dead horse for a few weeks now and... a sheeple cartoon gets more recognition in GD then this same post I put there... It pisses me off. I just don't get it. If just 10% of DU would take five freakin minutes and send a note of encouragement to the council members, they would have what... 15k, more? notes of encouragement to go further then they already are going? When politicians feel they have support, they go forward, when they don't, they stop and look elsewhere. Yet... the thread that has the contact information has around 325 views, I'm sure at least 50 of them are mine and I would be willing to bet not everyone that has looked has taken the time to send a note... not when this started, not now when some actual progress has been made and not when the potential for more exists.
It is not a victory, not even close. It is one small step on a long ass journey but they all need to be taken. President Obama could have and should have done more then he has (and I'm pissed he has not and I've let him know it) but even if he did, these steps need to be taken as well. He is not going to wave some magic wand and suddenly give everyone equal rights... Shit just does not happen that way.
blaaaargh... ok, I've been up all night, I'm drunk and pissed off and I'm not really directing this at you jeremyfive, I'm just going off :mad:
Though... I don't think it would hurt if everyone reading this actually sent a note as well as go give a K&R to my GD thread (and say you also sent a note) so that maybe a few more DU'ers will think it is worth their five minutes to do the same. GD thread here:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x6127388I'm gonna go get some sleep now and I hope to come back to see a long list of people telling me to STFU, we sent the fucking note already :D