From: brian@quake.sylmar.ca.us (Brian K. Yoder)
Subject: Re: To the Clinton supporters
Organization: Quake Public Access
Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1992 22:29:38 GMT

In article <Bx7KE9.wu@nic.umass.edu> csulaima@titan.ucc.umass.edu (CYNTHIA R SULAIMAN) writes:
>Yes, we won!!!  Doesn't it feel great?!!  

Actually, all of us lost...some of us just don't realize it yet.  Of course,
we all would have lost of Bush had won too, but that's another story.

>Personally I forgot how it feels to get up the day after the election and
>feel that tomorrow is going to be actually brighter than today.  Feels 
>good not to have the millstone of doom around my neck after every
>election the Republicans won.

That's incredible!  Everything Clinton and Gore have been demanding involves
putting millstones on our necks "for the common good".  Whether or not
you think that all these limits on individual freedom are going to be "better"
in some way than if we were's chained down by government regulations and taxes,
a millstone is still a millstone, and it is guaranteed to get worse.

>But with this excitement and good feeling comes a different type
>of responsibility.  Instead of saying when things go wrong "they
>aren't our guys, we didn't elect them", we now have to keep ourselves
>and our president on track.  Keep him and Al Gore on the path that they
>set, reaching for and obtaining the goals that we elected them for.

Even if they try going things that are unconstitutional and immoral?  (like 
regulating people's private matters, heavy taxation, and outlawing certain
kinds of business like insurance)  I don't think so.  I'll fight them every
step of the way, just as I did against Bush when he did the same things.

>We don't want Baker, Quayle, Kemp or someone else being able to
>challenge a record of broken promises.  

I would prefer that Clinton break his promises, since he has promised to
intrude into my private life in innumerable ways.

>write letters to congress persons
>keep track of what bills are being voted on and what is being placed in
>front of our president
>show your community spirit and involvement

Don't worry, I will.  Unfortunately, every federal official that supposedly
"represents" me is a liberal democrat (Henry Waxman, Barbara Boxer, Diane
Feinstein, and Bill Clinton) so I don't think it will do much good.  All of 
these people are impervious to ideas (not that Bush was any better), so
I don't expect much to come of my letters.

I wonder...since none of these people will listen to what I have to say, and
they certainly can't be said to "represent me" in any way, am I a victim of
taxation without representation?  Certainly, they seem to feel free to spend
the money I earn without asking and with a sneer as my only payment (since
they consider me to be one of the "evil rich" who are making others poor).
Why can't they just leave me alone?  Didn't their parents teach them any 
manners?

>If we are nasty about winning, how can we expect or even ask the
>supporters of all the other candidates to join our cause?

If I could choose between the socialists (aka democrats) being "good winners"
and refraining from abusing my rights in office, I'd have them be bad winners.
I don't care how polite they are, people robbing me are not going to get my
support.

>How can we even talk about healing a nation, when we divide it by our 
>words?

When your words are "Your money or your life?" we are irrevocable at odds.
If it's a choice between "healing" and robbery vs. division and justice,
I'll chooce the division.  You are trying to use emotion to paper over
the difference between justice and theft.  That doesn't cut it.

>It is not just those who we elected yesterday who will help make policy
>and try to heal wonds, but it is us too.

I think they are going to do exactly the opposite.  The democrats open every
"wound" they can...they set the rich against the poor, and men against women,
all the races against one another.  The all this, in order to avoid 
consideringthe important division between the just and the unjust, which they
deny at every turn.  That's one breach I refuse to "heal".

--Brian


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