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Enjoy!! Life just doesn't get much better than that! (Just picture yourself inside a scene like the one above... whenever you'd like to be there!) And we invite you to tell us of any other ways that you have discovered, which enable you to maximize enjoyment of the liberties that you possess!

The "Religious" Right. Was It REALLY Bush's "Base?"

The Big CON: The "Religious Right" as Bush's "Base."

Here are the Indisputable FACTS.

It has been well-documented by 11-02-04's accurate exit polls that only 17.16% of those who went to the polls voted for Bush on the basis of so-called "moral" issues.

(Derived thus: 22% voted primarily of the basis of "values," and 78% of those who did so voted for Bush... for a total of 17.16% voters who voted for "values" from the standpoint of REPRESSING liberties. The remainder voted for Kerry, having defending personal liberties as their most important issue.) That means that 82.64% of those who voted for Bush -- for Bush! -- not voters overall -- voted for him for OTHER reasons than "values" being foremost. For them, if "values" were an issue for some, they took back burner position to such relevant issues as the war and the economy. Thus, the "values-voter" control-freaks who voted for Bush were outnumbered by those who voted for him based upon relevant issues by a ratio of about six to one.

(Bush can consider himself very lucky that 82.84% of his voters actually were obtuse enough to vote for him based on any issues, considering what a proven dishonest and thug-employing warmonger he is.) (It's like the "Mirror" in the UK astutely asked: "How can 59,054,087 Americans be so DUMB?")

That's the KINDEST possible cut to the bigots. But another aspect to the reality of all of this comes from factoring in the voters who went for Kerry... virtually NONE of whom (obviously) did so in hopes of seeing the above repressive agendas being supported.

Let's use these total vote tallies (which each increased somewhat since they first were reported, but the percentages didn't change)...

Bush .... 59,459,785
Kerry .... 55,949,407
Nader ........ 400,706

...and omit Nader, since I haven't seen exit polls regarding how "moral"-issues-voters related to voting for him. If I could include those votes in this analysis, though, it probably would be even WORSE for the bigots, since Nader supporters tend to siphon off more would-be Democratic votes than Republican ones. So that's a point worth remembering.

17.16% of Bush's vote works out to 10,203,299, using the above tallies. 0% neocons voting for Kerry, of course, is zilch, numbers-wise. So -- without factoring in the irresponsible losers who were eligible to vote, but didn't, that means that out of a total
of115,409,192 votes actually cast for Bush and Kerry on 11-2-04, only a mere 8.84% were cast by neocon/RRR cult-type "values" voters; i.e., voters who had NO regard for some of out most important personal liberties.

Then it REALLY goes downhill fast for those pathetic bigots!

Those who didn't vote, even though they were eligible to, no doubt included some passive/apathetic sympathizers to the RRR cult's agendas. But, for however many of those there may have been, those neocons were of the harmless variety that are of no concern at all for fair-minded and egalitarian defenders of human rights. Why? Because for a person to pose ANY kind of threat to human rights, they must to SOME degree be activists in that respect.

Consider the fact that pretty much the easiest way to be an activist in the most minimal degree these days is to VOTE. Why? Because recently it has become universally possible, in America, to vote by mail, or ahead of time in person, or via absentee ballot. So when a person doesn't even make that minimal an effort to support agendas that interest them, then they have proven their passivity on these issues. So the percentages of bigots among those voters doesn't matter, since passive bigots are not the sort of bigots that anyone needs to be concerned with.

Thankfully, even with everything else that Bush has done to America since his cronies (along with his own dishonesty) slipped him into the back door of the White House, the Thought Police that George Orwell envisioned in 1984 haven't come onto the scene as yet. And without them, we really have no idea how many Americans are closet racists living in America who used to be segregationists, up until their loathsome agenda became extinct, 40 years ago. By being closet racists, they are harmless. No one cares about a person's thoughts. What counts is the way he acts toward others. Even though there probably are millions of such people.

I've been unable to find an exact figure for the percentage of eligible voters that didn't get to the polls, but extrapolating from the figures cited in this article,it must have been very close to 44%. That gives us a total of around 206,087,824 total eligible voters: both the ones who went to the polls, and the 90,678,632 or so who weren't sufficiently motivated by any of the issues, either real or misperceived, to bother to vote. Again -- there is no reason for pro-human rights activists to be concerned about the eligible voters who didn't vote, because such tepid people don't do human rights any harm, nor do they do the forces of bigotry any good. They're like the neutrons in an atom; they add mass/bulk/volume to the population, but when it comes to these issues, they do little or nothing else. So we have a total 90,678,632 lukewarm people who proved that the bigoted agendas of the RRR Cult -- the "Religious" Radical Right -- are of little or no importance to them, so they didn't bother to vote for the candidate most closely aligned with those issues. (Nevertheless, it would be very nice if we could help them to become voting egalitarians!)

Of the U.S. electorate eligible to vote on Nov. 2, 2004, we thus have a total of only 10,203,299 out of 206,087,824 who supported bigoted agendas by voting for Bush with that being the foremost reason for casting that vote. That's only a mere 5%.

An "X" factor could be the 80 million or so NON-eligible voters living in America. Exit polls showed that the younger voters who were old enough and who did vote tended to support Kerry by around 56% vs. 44%. And the voters over 65 tended to support Bush in higher percentages than average -- but there are fewer of those than there are of younger voters.

But there's no real way to come up with figures for how NON-eligible voters might have voted if their viewpoints could be considered, so we're forced either to ignore them, or simply figure that they were fairly evenly split, as was the case for the overall election... which went 51% Bush, 49% Kerry, and less than 1% Nader.

BOTTOM LINE: Of the American electorate eligible to vote, only a mere 5% are active supporters of the RRR Cult's heinous agendas against human rights and personal liberties. FIVE PERCENT. That's a ratio of 20-1 of people who either support human rights actively or for whom opposition to them is of a low enough priority that they didn't even bother to actively support those loathsome agendas against safe & legal abortion-upon-request and equal rights for gays by voting for Bush. VERY heartening!!

There is NO mandate for Bush that can be ascribed to the RRR Cult, and it is ludicrous for him to consider those hateful loons to be his "base." Only a mere 5% of America's eligible voters supported him on that basis.

Nineteen out of every 20 of America's 206 million eligible voters either are opposed to the loathsome agendas of the RRR cult, or are not sufficiently interested in them to even minimally support them.

Out of all that, the only bad news is this: A glass of drinking water that's comprised of 5% arsenic would be deadly poisonous. And that is precisely the danger currently posed to personal freedom in America by the hateful and control-freakish RRR cult as it exists today. The RRR Cult is a dangerous infestation afflicting society. Its lemming-like adherents are every bit as ignorant and bigoted as were the segregationists that preceded them (in the South). As long as it exists, we can't safely ignore it, and its vicious and insidious agendas, any more than we could safely ignore the arsenic in this analogy. The activists of the RRR Cult are dedicated, 24/7, to the absolute destruction of many valuable liberties that hugely benefit many tens of millions of people, and they constantly are concocting new ways to accomplish that. Methods and tactics that need to be countered and nullified.

More than ever before, thinking, sensible, and egalitarian Americans need to work HARD to oppose the loathsome RRR Cult on all fronts, and neutralize and get rid of that poisonous threat to our individual liberties. STARTING with vigorous and vocal opposition to any more nominees to the U.S. Supreme Court who are Anti-Choice.

We are just ONE scary vote away from a reversal of the Court's emancipation of teen girls and women in 1973. If that were to happen, this nation would become a divisive hodgepodge of "slave" states and "free" states -- and countless thousands of economically-deprived girls and women would be unable to travel to free states -- and thus would be FORCED either to gestate UNwanted pregnancies to term against their will (at a cost of countless of their pre-ill-timed-pregnancy future opportunities which would have been immediately restored), or be faced with getting dangerous or exorbitantly-expensive illegal abortions. If this happens, America, having been free in this vitally-important regard for more than three decades, will surely become nightmarish.

We CAN make America a Bigotry-Free Zone. The arsenic CAN be filtered out! Especially when 95% of the population is comprised of a combination of human rights activists and a huge number of apathetic people who pose no opposition to our accomplishing that.

And we must do so. Starting today!!!

And we must get a Democrat back into the White House on Jan. 21, 2009!

Gays vastly outnumbered by their Straight ALLIES.

On Jan. 28, 2004, a Usenet participant challenged an earlier post that I'd made, by asking this question:

Please prove that "straight allies almost certainly are in greater numbers than the gays".

To which I responded as follows ---

That's one of the easiest things in the world to do!

Pretty much the highest percentage of gays that anyone claims, in the population, is 10%. But just for fun, let's assume for a moment that figure were true. However... recent polls have shown that the percentage of people in America who would be supportive of same-sex civil unions (but not "marriage,' semantically-speaking... and really, that's the ONLY difference) is now very close to 50%. Any straight person who would not object to same-sex civil unions is an ALLY of the gays. And if we used only 40% (and there are more allies than that, as I just said), then we'd have the following:

Gays -- 10%... 29,000,000 Americans

+ Straight Allies -- 30%... 87,000,000 Americans

= TOTAL Gays & Allies -- 40%... 116,000,000 Americans

Ratio: 3-1. Three times more straight allies than gays. (At least!)

Using more realistic numbers, let's assume that 5% of the population is gay, and that 45%of population favors the granting of the right of gays to have same-sex civil unions. This gives us the following figures, which probably approximate today's reality very closely:

Gays -- 5%... 14,500,000 Americans

+ Straight Allies -- 45%... 130,500,000 Americans

= TOTAL Gays & Allies -- 50%... 145,000,000 Americans

Ratio: 9-1. NINE times more straight allies than gays.

Using either set of figures, those who think (wish) that straight allies of the GLBT Community are few in number, lose, big-time. A ratio of three-to-one is the best they can do with such a claim, but that's unrealistically low. Straight ALLIES of the gays vastly outnumber the gays, themselves. By approximately NINE-to-one.

The source of this next information is:

http://www.abcnews.go.com/sections/us/Relationships/same_sex_marriage_poll_040121.html

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Views of Same-Sex Marriage and Civil Unions:

"Marriage" -- Make legal: 41% ... Keep Illegal: 55%
"Civil Unions" -- Make legal: 46% ... Keep Illegal: 51%

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This reliable ABC News Poll proves the ignorance of homophobes when they attempt to claim that gays have relatively few straight allies. They can wish all they want, but these facts are devastating to their antisocial hopes.

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And -- per CNN's exit polls at the Wisconsin Primary, fully 61% of the people in that HEARTLAND (not "liberal" coastal) state who took the time and effort to actually get out and VOTE --said that they SUPPORT same sex civil unions/marriage. And that was an open primary, in which people from ALL parties, including Republicans, were allowed to vote. The Wisconsin Primary was held more than a week after the same-sex marriages had started in San Francisco, so people were well aware of what they were supporting.

In conclusion, I offer this food for thought. Even by 2004, it was becoming very evident that the agendas of homophobic bigots were entering a fast track toward the Drain of Extinction. Where they ultimately would end up, forevermore, with the equally-hateful and ignorant agenda of the oh-so-similar segregationists, 50 years earlier. Which is HUGE progress toward an egalitarian America, when one considers that even as recently as 1970, it's likely that opposition to same-sex marriage probably would have exceeded 90%... if the issue even were to have been raised at all.

The legalization of same-sex marriage is inevitable, thanks to egalitarian activists. And when it arrives... guess what? It'll be just like 1967 all over again -- when the U.S. Supreme Court's "Loving vs. Virginia" decision struck down all remaining laws against interracial marriage. The sky didn't fall then, and it won't this time either. Because, after all, it's hard to imagine anything more harmless than same-sex marriage. It'll do NO harm to any opposite-sex couples' marriages. And by five years later, the likelihood is that almost no one will even give it a second thought, anymore. And wonder what the fuss had been all about!

WELCOME to Freedom-Lover's Country!

If you live in the USA -- or anywhere else on earth -- and you value and cherish personal freedoms, and loathe any form of repression, censorship, or tyranny, then this is the place for you! You're going to LOVE the information you'll find in here!

The primary purpose of this blog is to provide ideas, talking points, and concepts that can enable the readers -- that's you! -- to devise, employ, and implement effective strategies and tactics that will enable you to both promote and defend any and all personal liberties against ALL of its enemies... from the hateful and UN-Christian RRR Cult (That's the "Religious" Radical Right -- America's very own home-grown version of the Taliban, started 30 years ago by Jerry Falwell), to all other terrorists or terrorist wanna-bes, internal and external. And everyone in between who disrespects or seeks to deny or curtail individual liberties to ANY person or group of people.

Friendly humor in here is encouraged, whenever appropriate. After all, it's FUN to defend things and principles of value. So whenever an agenda that's antithetical to personal liberties takes a hit, and suffers a significant defeat, that is GOOD for society, and good for all of us, as individuals. And accomplishing that is just soo-o-o satisfying!

New strategies, tactics, talking points, relevant facts and articles will be added herein constantly, so come back often, and invite your friends!

You'll see articles to which you may post comments -- and your input will be very welcome. Just one thing about that, though. We cherish freedom of speech, but we will view comments that oppose liberties with the same regard that society holds for shouting "Fire!!" in a crowded theater. There is no place for the promotion of bigotry or discrimination in here, so any such hatefulness appearing in comments will be deleted. As will overt instances of profanity. Say whatever you want, just as long as you don't do those two things. Meanwhile, we will welcome any new talking points, tactics, or ideas for opposing all forms of tyranny, with open arms! And if you learn of a defeat for an agenda or vocal opponent of personal liberties, please provide us with the delicious details. (But please -- always be FACTUAL, and cite sources whenever they are relevant, and it's possible to do so. We want to maintain HIGH standards of integrity. Both because it's the right thing to do... and because the negative other side, which usually is devoid of facts, so has to rely mostly on propaganda and emotional appeals... will find that upsetting. The more challenging we can be to them, and the more we can counter their specious arguments with solid facts -- the more we can erode their antisocial agendas. And the better we can thereby serve society.)

Even though many countries don't defend (or too often, even allow) freedom of (and from) religion, the USA does, and so do we. We believe that every person on earth has the right to believe (or not believe) in any way that he or she chooses, and that all religions are equally valuable, person-by-person. Please remember this, too. We won't appreciate the denigration of any person's religion -- whether atheist, agnostic, Christian, Muslim, Hindu, Shinto, or anything else. And religion should never be used as an excuse for seeking to deny liberties to people. Only pseudo-religious cults strive to bludgeon personal liberties. (Such as the RRR Cult.) Nothing justifies bigotry. Opposing individual freedoms is always inexcusable.

Before leaving the subject of the RRR Cult, may I suggest that you visit the article that shows the enormity of the difference between it, and actual Christianity. Click on its title, Have you EVER Told a LIE? (Key Talking Points!)