5 min.Early vote
Grown folks knew what is happening was going to happen when we elected President Obama. They said that the same people who cheered and jumped up and down would be the same people who did vote in the midterm elections.
I can see it in the First Lady’s face; a face that looks like mine. She is telling him, “remember when I said you can run only with the understanding that if it doesn’t work, if the nation doesn’t want or appreciate us….we walk away.” She looks like she is thinking, “we don’t need this mess.”
Oh, do we need them. We need her to cut loose and tough talk with regular Americans about what we can do to improve our situation with the moderation, planning, focus and deliberation that made the Robinson family successful.
She could create a new moderation that opens the door for moderates being shown the door by the far right. The emergence of these new moderates gives a voice to those who read Hill Harper, Bill Cosby and Joe Scarborough books. The Blue Dogs were correct all along and that’s why the crafty cats on the far Right want them gone; no moderate Democrats mean the Democrat Party is primary liberal and an easier target in 2012.
But, first things first: vote in the midterm. In Georgia, a 2010 vote is more important than your 2008 vote. A very vocal and energetic segment of population has ginned up voters with a desire to take over the congress from the Democrats and even the Republicans. Yes, the far Right section of conservative side is looking at the regular Republicans as if to say “this is how you do it” and you know what they do if you are over 40 years old.
Grown folks, we need to talk. After we talk, we need to call, email, text, tweet or whatever whose under 30 and tell them (not ask them) to vote. The Republicans have a few quality guys who might be president in the future—Rep. Paul Ryan and Governor Mitch Daniels come to mind. But, this midterm election is the next step in the Palin for president plan and her Tea Party congressional candidates will be spending the next two years graying the rest of Obama’s hair with subpoenas and impeachment efforts.
We shouldn’t hate on those who use “any means necessary” to stop an agenda they dislike because they couldn’t do it if regular folks would take 10 minutes to early vote. By any means necessary (cookout, Sunday dinner, half-time talk at the high school football games), we should remind our community to vote. Early vote or the Obama presidency effectively ends early–not four years but two years when he should have eight.
You might as well dust off your 70s vinyl because we are about to go back to the future next month if you we don’t vote. I am listening to that haunting R&B flute with fond memories of the past but also clear recollections of our community being voiceless and the South being a powder keg. By mid November, reasonable people will be saying “I want my country back” when referring to last month.
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Let’s do it; a backyard meetup everyday for 30 days or 30 events in 30 days; play some real music from back in the day but low enough so we can rap with the youth about community involvement and voting.
Who is the “WE” that you are speaking of?
In my view we are quickly coming in to a phase of our community condition in which the confidence in “the vote” will have run its course.
That which we were told could be accomplished by voting is going to have to be fixed through other, non-political channels that have been neglected.
CF: As usual, you are right so let me narrow the use of that pronoun. At this point during this tough election season, politics has become very personal and direct so “we” to me is my southwest corner of Georgia but many of the same concerns are real across the South.
“We” could also be the collection of people who supported President Obama’s election for a four-year term when talk on the street is job one for the Tea Partiers seeking seats in congress might be terms of impeachment. While congressmen want to run on their own records, the energize people on the far Right consider this election the first opportunity to stop Obama and vent on this White House’s policies.
CF, I couldn’t agree with your more about the need to have “our community” stop thinking about what the government can do for them and addressing problems or better avoiding problematic situations in the first place. That message should be the foundation for elected officials who represent us. The funny things is that the moderates in congress who have push those views (should have pushed more) are the very targets of the extreme Right.
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