Michael Moore's Latest Newsletter explaining how the Democrats are victims of abuse

Michael Moore's Newsletter | 12/13/2004 | Michael Moore

[Capagrl]

12/13/04

Dear Friends,

It is no surprise that the Republicans are sore winners. They have spent the better part of the past month beating their chests, threatening to send to Siberia any Republican who doesn’t toe the line (poor Arlen Specter), and promising everything short of martial law if the Democrats don’t do what they are told.

What’s worse is to watch the pathetic sight of the DLC (the conservative, pro-corporate group of Democrats) apologizing for being Democrats and promising to “purge” the party of the likes of, well, all of US! Their comments are so hilarious and really not even worth recognizing but the media is paying so much attention to them, I thought it might be worth doing a little reality check.

The most people the DLC is able to get out to an event of theirs is about 200 at their annual dinner (where you have to pay thousands of dollars to get in).

Contrast this with the following:

* Total Members of Move On: More than 2,000,000 * Total Attendance at Vote for Change Concerts: An estimated 280,000 * Total Union Members in U.S.: Around 16,000,000 * Total Number of People Who Have Seen “Fahrenheit 9/11”: Over 50 million * Total Number of You Reading This: Perhaps 10 million or more

The days of trying to move the Democratic Party to the right are over. We lost a very close election (a one-state difference) by running the #1 liberal in the Senate. Not bad. The country is shifting in our direction, not to the right. But the country was attacked and people were scared. They were manipulated with fear. And America has never thrown a sitting president out during wartime. That’s the facts. Oh, and our candidate could have run a better campaign (but we’ll have that discussion another day).

In the meantime, while we reflect on what went wrong, I would like to pass on to you an essay that a friend who works with abuse victims sent to me. It was written by a woman who has spent years working as an advocate for victims of domestic abuse and she sees many parallels between her work and the reaction of many Democrats to last month’s election. Her name is Mel Giles and here is what she had to say…

Watch Dan Rather apologize for not getting his facts straight, humiliated before the eyes of America, voluntarily undermining his credibility and career of over thirty years. Observe Donna Brazille squirm as she is ridiculed by Bay Buchanan, and pronounced irrelevant and nearly non-existent. Listen as Donna and Nancy Pelosi and Senator Charles Schumer take to the airwaves saying that they have to go back to the drawing board and learn from their mistakes and try to be better, more likable, more appealing, have a stronger message, speak to morality. Watch them awkwardly quote the bible, trying to speak the ‘new’ language of America. Surf the blogs, and read the comments of dismayed, discombobulated, confused individuals trying to figure out what they did wrong. Hear the cacophony of voices, crying out, "Why did they beat me?"

And then ask anyone who has ever worked in a domestic violence shelter if they have heard this before.

They will tell you: Every single day.

The answer is quite simple. They beat us because they are abusers. We can call it hate. We can call it fear. We can say it is unfair. But we are looped into the cycle of violence, and we need to start calling the dominating side what they are: abusive. And we need to recognize that we are the victims of verbal, mental, and even, in the case of Iraq, physical violence.

As victims we can't stop asking ourselves what we did wrong. We can't seem to grasp that they will keep hitting us and beating us as long as we keep sticking around and asking ourselves what we are doing to deserve the beating.

Listen to George Bush say that the will of God excuses his behavior. Listen, as he refuses to take responsibility, or express remorse, or even once, admit a mistake. Watch him strut, and tell us that he will only work with those who agree with him, and that each of us is only allowed one question (soon, it will be none at all; abusers hit hard when questioned; the press corps can tell you that). See him surround himself with only those who pledge oaths of allegiance. Hear him tell us that if we will only listen and do as he says and agree with his every utterance, all will go well for us (it won't; we will never be worthy).

And watch the Democratic Party leadership walk on eggshells, try to meet him, please him, wash the windows better, get out that spot, distance themselves from gays and civil rights. See the Democrats cry for the attention and affection and approval of the President and his followers. Watch us squirm. Watch us descend into a world of crazy-making, where logic does not work and the other side tells us we are nuts when we rely on facts. A world where, worst of all, we begin to believe we are crazy.

How to break free? Again, the answer is quite simple.

First, you must admit you are a victim. Then, you must declare the state of affairs unacceptable. Next, you must promise to protect yourself and everyone around you that is being victimized. You don't do this by responding to their demands, or becoming more like them, or engaging in logical conversation, or trying to persuade them that you are right. You also don't do this by going catatonic and resigned, by closing up your ears and eyes and covering your head and submitting to the blows, figuring its over faster and hurts less if you don't resist and fight back.

Instead, you walk away. You find other folks like yourself, 57 million of them, who are hurting, broken, and beating themselves up. You tell them what you've learned, and that you aren't going to take it anymore. You stand tall, with 57 million people at your side and behind you, and you look right into the eyes of the abuser and you tell him to go to hell. Then you walk out the door, taking the kids and gays and minorities with you, and you start a new life. The new life is hard. But it's better than the abuse.

We have a mandate to be as radical and liberal and steadfast as we need to be. The progressive beliefs and social justice we stand for, our core, must not be altered. We are 57 million strong. We are building from the bottom up. We are meeting, on the net, in church basements, at work, in small groups, and right now, we are crying, because we are trying to break free and we don't know how.

Any battered woman in America, any oppressed person around the globe who has defied her oppressor will tell you this: There is nothing wrong with you. You are in good company. You are safe. You are not alone. You are strong. You must change only one thing: Stop responding to the abuser.

Don't let him dictate the terms or frame the debate (he'll win, not because he's right, but because force works). Sure, we can build a better grassroots campaign, cultivate and raise up better leaders, reform the election system to make it fail-proof, stick to our message, learn from the strategy of the other side. But we absolutely must dispense with the notion that we are weak, godless, cowardly, disorganized, crazy, too liberal, naive, amoral, "loose,” irrelevant, outmoded, stupid and soon to be extinct. We have the mandate of the world to back us, and the legacy of oppressed people throughout history.

Even if you do everything right, they'll hit you anyway. Look at the poor souls who voted for this nonsense. They are working for six dollars an hour if they are working at all, their children are dying overseas and suffering from lack of health care and a depleted environment and a shoddy education.

And they don't even know they are being hit.

How true. And that is our challenge over the next couple of years; to hold out our hand to those being hit the hardest and help them leave behind a party that only seeks to keep beating them, their children, and the kid next door who’s on his way to Iraq.

Yours,

Michael Moore

[jackd]

Persistence, not intelligence, is the danger here. Moore seems to feel that if he adopts the strategy of German "national" socialists he can influence a hard core of radical followers that inanely repeat his diatribes. His movies have been completely discredited, his books are a waste of ink yet he persists. Why, because he is the only visible speaker for socialist (the "NAACP" would say Progressive) ideas currently on the market. He will eventually be overshadowed and that's the real fear. If this big, fat, stupid white man can speak to and for millions what's going to happen when a charismatic socialist in moderate clothing comes to the fore?
We may be laughing now but look over the horizon. There WILL be someone with ability that will come along and pick up the fallen socialist banner. (It is not Hillary. She's a joke and could never mobilize a national following of the majority.) Watch out for the smooth talking Hispanic with the Caucasian wife.

[Pietro]

you just can't make this stuff up.

Is mm talking third (turd) party here? How great would that be?

Split the demoncrats in half; that will teach those wascally wepublicans!

[TC Rider]

We need massive funding to provide shelters for battered Democrats.

[agere_contra]

"the equivalent of the theologians and academics in the Middle Ages who firmly believed that the Earth is flat. And these flat-Earth people sought to bully all who disagreed with them into silence and submission"

Not to spoil a good Moore-bash, but - you do have a source for this? I've never heard of any religious fatwah about the earth being flat. There are illustrated psalters from the 9th century showing a round earth in the hand of God. What can you mean?

[APFel]

* Total Members of Move On: More than 2,000,000 * Total Attendance at Vote for Change Concerts: An estimated 280,000 * Total Union Members in U.S.: Around 16,000,000 * Total Number of People Who Have Seen “Fahrenheit 9/11”: Over 50 million * Total Number of You Reading This: Perhaps 10 million or more

Interesting. Does he not see that some of these numbers overlap? There are no MoveON members who went to the Vote for Change concert and saw F911 who belong to a union and get his drivel in their Email?

Does he think that people who went to the concerts voted for Kerry simply because they went to the concerts? Some people just went to see The Boss and could give a rip about the Dems or politics in general.

Why does he seem to think that everyone who saw F911 voted for Kerry? His Jedi mind tricks are not that powerful. Some thought Columbine and Roger and me were funny and went looking for that kind of "entertainment" in F911. Some people went just to see what all of the controversy was about. Even some hard left Dems said it was nothing but hyperbole on film. Did all F911 voters vote dem? Something tells me no.

And what on Earth makes him think that all union members voted for Kerry? Because their union bosses give heavily to the DNC and tell their members to vote Dem?

It is also interesting to note that he claims that Kerry is the most liberal member of the Senate, yet Kerry didn't run his campaign this way. Is Moore so blind to see that most of Kerry's energies went into trying to trick the electorate into thinking that he was a "moderate"?

Cripes almighty, how did a man whose thoughts as deep as a thimble become so stinking rich? The old saying that someone doesn't see the forest despite the trees hardly captures this man's mindset. He doesn't see the storm despite the rain and lightning. He is the worst kind of fool.

APf

[G.Mason]

Winning, means never having to read about these dolts, 'til 2007!

No disrespect intended to you Capagrl. ;)

[weegee]

What’s worse is to watch the pathetic sight of the DLC (the conservative, pro-corporate group of Democrats) apologizing for being Democrats and promising to “purge” the party of the likes of, well, all of US!

Socialists who back the Green Party ARE NOT the core of the Democrat party. They are radical leftists and Democrats would be WISE to run them off rather than letting them mandate the party agenda.

[expatguy]

ROLFLMAO !! Is this for real?

I have tears in my eyes from laughing!!!

[Mad Dawg]

You stand tall, with 57 million people at your side and behind you, and you look right into the eyes of the abuser and you tell him to go to hell.

Okay. Let them have 57 million. We'll take the remaining 223 million. I like those numbers.

Then you walk out the door, taking the kids and gays and minorities with you, and you start a new life.

Oh, please, let us HOLD the door FOR you! Walk! Walk fast! Walk FAR! YES! Buh bye! Have a nice life!

[nuke rocketeer]

Let him rave. It will be worth another 3 or 4 senate and 20-30 house seats in 2006 and a guarnateed Republican president in 2008. I say, let Mikey Moron run the DNC. The idiots there are already running the asylum.

[Liberty Valance]

He's saying that since all his lying and pontificating didn't hold sway over the electorate that he is now going to have a hissy fit. How's that working out for you Mickey?

[theDentist]

First, you must admit you are a victim.

He misspelled 'dimwit'.

[agere_contra]

"Okay. Let them have 57 million. We'll take the remaining 223 million. I like those numbers."

hehe. I didn't spot that!

[SW6906]

Thank you for writing PRECISELY the post I was formulating in my mind while reading this crap.........

[26lemoncharlie]

Moore is the Poster Child for the Socialist Party Victims Center. The Dimms certainly know how to play the Victim Card, Poor Babies, maybe they need a Pity Party!

[weegee]

Media Schadenfreude and Media Shenanigans PING

Watch Dan Rather apologize for not getting his facts straight, humiliated before the eyes of America, voluntarily undermining his credibility and career of over thirty years. Observe Donna Brazille squirm as she is ridiculed by Bay Buchanan, and pronounced irrelevant and nearly non-existent. Listen as Donna and Nancy Pelosi and Senator Charles Schumer take to the airwaves saying that they have to go back to the drawing board and learn from their mistakes and try to be better, more likable, more appealing, have a stronger message, speak to morality. Watch them awkwardly quote the bible, trying to speak the ‘new’ language of America. Surf the blogs, and read the comments of dismayed, discombobulated, confused individuals trying to figure out what they did wrong. Hear the cacophony of voices, crying out, "Why did they beat me?"

And then ask anyone who has ever worked in a domestic violence shelter if they have heard this before.

They will tell you: Every single day.

The answer is quite simple. They beat us because they are abusers. We can call it hate. We can call it fear. We can say it is unfair. But we are looped into the cycle of violence, and we need to start calling the dominating side what they are: abusive. And we need to recognize that we are the victims of verbal, mental, and even, in the case of Iraq, physical violence.

Dan Rather (and Tom Brokaw) is only sorry that he got caught. He pushed the memos and attacked his critics for a week and so did AP. He could have set them aside when they were called into question.

Even when the documents' legitimacy was cast out, the left STILL said that we needed to consider the content of the argument that they supported even if the documents themselves were frauds.

B.S. We aren't going to take it any more and will not be badgered by the MSM. Dan Rather was not a victim in this and I will not let Herr Mikey Goebbels Moore cast him as such.

Not when there was REAL Nazism and abuse going on in this country:

When angry Democrats attack - DemocRat Violence and Vandalism documents (Brownshirts for Kerry)

Keyword: electionviolence

Keyword: voterintimidation

Boo frickin' hoo. Michael Moore is a terrorist sympathizer and a traitor to America. He cheers on the "insurgents".

[tkathy]

Whine, play the victim, and always blame others.

[weegee]

Total Number of People Who Have Seen “Fahrenheit 9/11”: Over 50 million

Lying liar.

At roughly $6 (with matinee pricing averaged in) a ticket, only 20million (with some repeat viewers no less) paid $120million to see F911 in theaters.

Is he claiming that another 30million bought/rented his film?

BS. It is another of his "9hundred and 11 lies". It is as inflated a figure as his ego.

[45semi]

"They beat us because they are abusers."

Not so much that we are 'abusers' (what B.S.)
But that you all are such p___ies (meow)
Listening post-election to your whining like a spoiled kid who didnt get a particular treat,
how could we see you in any other light?

[punster]

So, Michael Moore wants to complain about abuse?

Perhaps, he should marry a dominitrix. She will whip him into shape.