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The Expansionist
Friday, October 22, 2004
 
Election Divisions. The loose interorganizational alliance of statehood-minded people to which my organization (the Expansionist Party of the United States) belongs is split on presidential preference. The head of the Taiwanese statehood group said:
Please note that all the Formosa Statehood Movement groups are urging their members to help re-elect George Bush. With Bush in the White House, we feel much more comfortable.

I replied with the following two-paragraph email to the United States International email group. The itemization in brackets is explained below this block quote:
I don't understand anyone supporting George Bush. His 4 years have been a catastrophe. [1] He permitted the 9/11 attacks, [2] he launched a war [a] of aggression against Iraq [b] that has become a nitemare, [3] he took the greatest budgetary surplus in the history of the world and turned it into a deficit in nine months, [4] he is running the world's largest deficits that will likely double the national debt if he is re-elected, [5] he is promoting politics of division and hatred of minorities, [6] he is keeping us from enacting any universal healthcare measure, [7] he has presided over a huge growth in the disparities in wealth between rich and poor, [8] he is impoverishing the middle class and [9] keeps increasing the size and invasiveness of the federal government (intruding wholesale into education, in which the feds have no right at all to act), all the while talking about smaller government!

Taiwanese have no reason to feel comfortable with George Bush, who is running a $124 BILLION deficit with mainland (Communist) China EVERY YEAR, and who would sell out Taiwan in two seconds to maintain that trade, which enables his rich friends to push U.S. wages down and force Americans to accept fewer and less generous fringe benefits. [10] He is in bed with the Butchers of Beijing, and wouldn't lift one little finger to stop an invasion of Taiwan.

I thought, after I'd sent that email, to count how many causes for opposing Bush I had articulated in those two paragraphs, and it turns out to be 10, just the number I've wanted for a feature here "10 Reasons the Democrats Should Trounce the Republicans This Election". But then I was reminded by the news item yesterday about a sergeant being sentenced to prison for 8 years for his role in the Abu Ghraib scandal, that there are more than 10.
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So I will focus this weekend on drafting short presentations on each of the 10, 11, or however many Reasons I want to put on this blog from now till the election. But the list above is a good start.





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