I will answer the call to arms

There's something different about this campaign. Mud-slinging, smearing, and rhetoric have been around for centuries. People like Sarah Palin have been around since the start of democracy 2500 years ago. But there's something different about the followers.

McCain can fuck himself. His time is over. But Sarah Palin is building her own following. Her speeches are lined with hatred, intolerance, scornful mockery. As she makes speeches tying the Democratic party to terrorism, her followers literally call out for their blood. They can't even refer to Barack Obama by his actual name, instead using customized epithets and thinly-veiled hate speech. They seem to believe that they're the majority, that they have control of the United States. They have echoed the rallying cry that planted the initial seed in extremist Islam, Naziism, and the genocidal assaults in Darfur: our enemies are a threat to our very existence. The mere presence of a Liberal is a threat to my well being.

We're so confident that the United States is the great beacon of hope that we refuse to see what is happening. They're starting a war.

Supporters of the Republican ticket had their votes cast before they even knew who was running. They started the campaigns advertising how liberals threaten their very existence back in 2004. They're gathering on chat boards, spewing hatred and intolerance towards their fellow Americans using many of the same words that the South used when describing blacks in defense of the slave trade.

We are no longer one nation.

This new era, which can be traced to the war between Bill Clinton and Newt Gingrich in 1996, is beyond the breaking point. The only way that we can be a united nation again is the eradication of the other side. Either the conservatives will mandate that all Americans think like them, the conservatives will self destruct, the liberals will threated to secede, the liberals will be driven into bankruptcy with the spoils going to the super-rich conservatives, or there will be revolt.

I will fight to protect my way of life from anyone who threatens it. For now, I am protected by living in the Pacific Northwest, who (with the exception of the collapse of WaMu) have been largely unaffected by this brewing war. But I am a liberal. I hold no grudge against those with conservative opinions or lifestyles, but The Conservatives—this new tribe, borne from the taste of sheer power given to them since 9/11—are traitors to the United States, and for the first time as an American I have seen a threat that inspires me to defend my country from a foreign power.

Any man, woman, or child who joins this new army, the army of Mavericks, is my enemy.