We watched the 2000 election turn into a New Fascist coup.

We watched religious conservatives march, step by step, for a fundamentalist Christian theocracy here in the United States.

We watched as one justified war turned into a Crusade by the unholy alliance of Christianity and multinational corporations like Halliburton.

We watch still, as Mr. Bush and his corporate masters attempt to permanently restrict civil liberties and privacy, completely destroy what's left of our public educational system, rape our environment, divert our economic security into corporate accounts and write bigotry itself into the United States Constitution.

BushCo mocks the world and every intelligent human being standing on it. They've turned Americans from rock stars into the most hated nationality on the planet.

Not content with making half a trillion dollars on the blood of American and Iraqi innocents in a corporate sponsored war we now know was planned and faked from before it started, their sights are set on the entire globe. From his Balloon of Hot Air, Mr. Bush shouts his craftily ignorant, everyman slogans in cognitively disjunct newspeak.

And we watch.

But judging from various recent events, the backlash is here:

• recent pitiful poll numbers
• the inability of Bush and his corporate lapdogs in the Senate to move their agenda forward even with superior body count
• the fact Bush is whipping up his Christian base once more with the tried and true bogeyman of gay marriage
• Bush is publicly flip-flopping to once again link 9/11 with Iraq as a justification for the war

I'd say the Balloon of Hot Air has developed a rather large hole. Now is the time for action.

Write your representatives. Tell them you don't support Bolton for American Ambassador to the United Nations and you won't vote for anyone who does. Tell them you want a full inquiry into the Downing Street Memo. Tell them you want religion out of education and government. Tell them you want clean air, clean water, and a sustainable way of life. Tell them you want infrastructure spending, not military/industrial subsidies.

Tell them you want the future, not the past.

Tell them it's time to represent the people instead of the corporate entities paying for politician's travels, slush funds and campaign steamrollers. And not just the rich people, the white people or the Christian people... ALL of the people.

Most importantly, talk to everyone you meet and keep on talking. Tell them all of these important positions and then tell them again. It's time to stop simply watching. It's time to step up, even if it's just by letting other people around know what you stand for and why. Don't yell, don't fight... just tell, and tell them to pass the message on.

Let's take these vandals down.