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Date:         Thu, 13 Aug 1992 17:01:00 -0400
From:         Song Weaver <JULIE%DRYCAS.CLUB.CC.CMU.EDU@CARNEGIE.BITNET>
Subject:      Throwing my helmet into the ring...

Okay, okay.  I'll run (since no one asked me too) on the Julie ticket.

Here's the scenario I forsee:

First, I'll plan a massive war on drugs.  This way I'll be sure to get
the support of drug lords and other such profiteers since I'll be
creating conditions which allow them to keep their prices _very_ high
and thereby make immense profit.  I'll also be killing off some of the
competition, which will undoubtedly raise the stakes even higher.
After all, we've got to boost the economy somehow.

Next, I'll engage in overseas military actions designed to boost
morale in this country at the expense of its economy.  That will help
lead more people into the arms of the drug dealers since they will be
so depressed that they'll turn to drugs in order to get over it.
They'll find the prices too expensive and turn to crime.  This gives
us a concrete enemy of "the criminal element" that we can link
directly to drugs and thereby add more funding to the war on drugs.

In the meantime, I'll dichotomize the country by innocuous refernces
to "traditional family values" without being even remotely specific
about what those values are, thus giving people who think themselves
moral and upstanding yet another enemy, which will be just about
everyone else.  This makes it really easy for me to lump all these
"other" people (such as blacks, gays, the poor, single mothers, etc.)
into the same category as drug dealers.

That helps unify the "non-others" vs. the "others" and while the
non-others are fleeing into the suburbs, they never have to SEE what
I've done to the "others" or face the consequences of their own greed
so that way I'll continue to maintain their support while the "others"
are being killed off by the war on drugs, AIDS and each other.  We can
cry moral outrage at them and their behavior and justify brutality on
them until they just dwindle away.  If I can get abortion to be
illegal, then maybe they'll seek more illegal abortions thereby
killing both the fetus as well as the mothers and we might finally
have a handle on controlling the little buggers.

Oh yeah.  I'll aslo cut the capital gains tax.

Who wants to be my running mate?

--Julie

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