Hindsight Being 20/20, A Recipe To Defeat Prop 8
I am so excited Obama won!
I have to admit that when I saw the electoral college numbers pass 270, I became one of those annoying people who began sending out mass texts to everyone I know reading: “Yay, Obama won!”
Plus, now I don’t have to employ my Plan B, which was to take my girl and her pug, Addy and move to an English-speaking European country (so I could still do comedy) and become an ex-Pat. I don’t know how I was going to fund it, maybe one last bank job – that would have sucked, cuz you know with the current financial crisis, it would take forever those bank bitches to roll that change to put in my cartoon bag of cash.
This is the first time in a long time that I’ve felt hopeful about my country and not fucking hijacked. Thank you Obama and his beautifully run campaign for helping me feel that hope again. I’m proud to be an American, again. I do understand this is the beginning and there is a lot of work to do.
Talk sbout a lot more work to do.. No on 8.
Damn, that was heartbreaking to wake up to this morning and rub my eyes at the TV set, over and over. It really blows! BUT I do have faith that with Obama as our leader, with a majority in the house and senate, and with Obama appointing possibly 4 new Supreme Court Justices, that we will have some smart people interpreting the Constitution CORRECTLY and we will have marriage equality for all soon! I am certain it will be in my lifetime!
Meanwhile I can’t help but think about how I think the Yes on 8 people won: THEY BROUGHT CHILDREN INTO IT! Whenever someone brings kids into anything people just immediately jump to their (KIDS) defense – as it should be for children, but NOT WHEN IT’S COMPLETE LIES AND NOT ABOUT KIDS AT ALL. The people at Yes on 8 knew this and used it in the sickest of ways to forward their ignorant agenda.
Here’s a little factoid for you. Did you know that there have been studies that show that if a magazine puts a childs face on it’s cover, people have a near impossible time time throwing it away or recycling it? It will sit on people’s coffee tables or desks, etc. for months and even years because people absolutely hate to discard faces of children. They hate to think for a second they are hurting kids in any way, so much so they won’t even recycle a fucking piece of paper.
So the lesson is = If you want to SELL something, ANYTHING, put a child’s face on it!
So here is what I suggest for a list of key goals when making a go of marriage equality next time (pretending it would be called Prop 8 again):
– Use the language style of your opponents campaign and make good use of the word ‘God’ in your marketing
– Use colors like red and white, but not blue. Blue is for liberals. Besides, red is the color of GOP (which is sooo close to GOD) and it’s the color of Jesus Christ’s blood, who died on the cross for us.
– Use images of innocent, white babies. Note: White babies sell more than babies of color.
– Use giant text with a confusing mixed message that only leaves you feeling like you will do anything to save that white baby.
Something like this:
So maybe the way to go is to trick ’em! Trick the fucking shit out of those right-wing, Jesus freaks, who believe they are better than us! Trick those fuckers who dare dangle my rights over my head with the face of a baby, a baby that has nothing to do with my rights. Maybe that will work?
Okay, now back to my hopeful and proud place.
Love you Obama, mean it!
XOXO – Ian