An open letter to the Red states, from the Blue states

The Register has posted an open letter, purportedly written by the “New Democrat Outreach Program”, to the states who voted for Bush. Here’s a sample, but be warned: there is language unfit for kiddies or anyone wearing blinders.

With hard work and superb organization, you have triumphed over John Kerry and the forces of Blue-state paternalism. Congratulations. The multinational corporations that hold you in bondage remain free to profit off your sweat nearly tax free, while their overpaid senior execs continue to pay a pittance in personal income tax.

Your primary and secondary schools will continue to turn out third-rate pupils with limited opportunities, while you enjoy the satisfaction of making it on your own without health care when a catastrophic illness bankrupts your family.

Your agricultural universities will continue issuing Ph.D.s in football, and bogus Protestant Evangelical and Fundamentalist theology, and how to jerk off a bull safely. Your children will learn to borrow enough money to erect chicken houses so that they, like you, can take custody — not possession, but custody — of Tyson’s chicks, feed them, rear them, assume losses from those that fail to thrive, and in the end earn just enough money to service their endless debt, and realize a profit of perhaps $12K a year. Your bank thanks you; Tyson thanks you; George W. Bush thanks you; and I thank you.

There’s much more at the link above, and I strongly recommend reading it.

On a similar note, Randi Rhodes (of Air America Radio) has a very interesting graphic linked off her main page, showing a puzzling statistic: the exit polls showing Kerry leading matched the final result almost exactly in states with primarily non-electronic balloting, but were almost completely wrong in states with primarily electronic balloting. Remember, of course, that the CEO of Diebold–the company who manufactured, supplied, and supported the voting machines–promised Ohio’s votes to Bush.

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