Uncle Michael (Moore) wants YOU!

If you know anyone who is so disaffected and dissatisfied with the changes Obama's election has yielded that he or she might abstain from this election, please forward this letter from Michael Moore, a guy who has certainly earned his cred as a fearless fighter for the middle class against the plutocracy.  His letter, originally posted on his Open Mike blog, was re-posted today on Reader Supported News.

I am particularly thinking of young people whose idealism may have been engaged then and is now uninspired.

Here's the main thing: the key to the country's overall wellness and quality of life for the middle class is education and empowerment of workers. If one has college debt, one has a deep investment in seeing that the playing field is not tilted in favor of the money people. Romney will stack the deck against the middle class -- especially those whose opportunities depend on turning their investment in education and/or skills training into decent quality-of-life-sustaining incomes -- and turn all systemic advantages to the wealthy. 

Not only is this a formula for screwing the 99% and destroying the country, it is morally wrong and it should pique one's idealism for this reason: human capital is more valuable than paper capital, but Romney and all plutocrats only value the paper. They regard people as office supplies or raw materials, an expense to be minimized, a drag on profit to be discarded when and if possible.

Obama has worked uphill all the way to expand rights and protections for women, sexual minorities, immigrants, consumers, and all people who would otherwise be without health insurance or subject to losing it for using it -- that means everyone. So it's not just voting to avoid Romney, it's voting FOR someone who has accomplished forward steps against mindless opposition in Congress.

So tell would-be abstainers to consider these concrete realities, drop the passive-aggressive petulance, grow up, and get the hell out and vote for Obama.

Letter to a Non-Voter

By Michael Moore, Open Mike Blog

05 November 12

get it - and I don't blame you. You're fed up and you could care less whether Tweedledee or Tweedledumber wins on Tuesday - because on Wednesday, your life will be the same, unchanged, regardless who is president. Your mortgage will still be underwater. You will still owe $50,000 on your student loan. Your son will still be in Afghanistan. Your daughter will still be working two jobs to make ends meet. And gas will still be at $4.

Four years ago you gave in and voted - and you voted for Obama. You wanted to believe he would go after the Wall Street crooks who crashed the economy - but instead the banks that were "too big to fail" four years ago are now even bigger and more dangerous. You thought there'd be universal health care - but the new law only went so far (with most of it not taking effect until 2014). You were tired of war and homeland security measures that violated our civil liberties - but we're still in Afghanistan, we're sending in drones to Pakistan and basic constitutional rights to privacy and fair trial have been ignored. And you thought you'd have a middle-class, good-paying job like your dad had - but you didn't know that Goldman Sachs was Obama's #1 private campaign donor in 2008, and well, he was beholden to corporate America in more ways we cared to think about.

So, I get it why you've had it with all these politicians and elections. In the end, it doesn't really seem to be our country any more. It's run by those who can buy the most politicians to do their bidding. Our schools are made a low priority and women are still having to fight for just the basic human rights we thought they already had.

So, it's hard for me to ask you for this very personal favor. It's ok if you say "no," but I'm hoping you don't.

I cannot believe it is possible that, after a group of rich plutocrats wrecked the economy, threw people out of work and stole our future, we may actually hand the keys to our country over to...a rich Republican plutocrat who made millions by throwing people out of work! This is insane, and despite all the legitimate criticisms of Obama, he is nothing like the tsunami of hate and corporate thievery that will take place if Mitt Romney is president. As bad as it feels now, it will only get worse. I need your help to stop this.

I can't promise you that your life will get better, easier under Barack Obama. I do think he cares and I know for sure that if the other guy is sitting in the Oval Office, I can guarantee you that not only will your life not get better, it will get much, much worse. Don't take my word for it. Just ask your parents what life was like before a 30-year pillage by the Republicans of the middle class. Your parents bought a house and eventually owned it outright. They weren't in debt. College was free. They bought a new car every 3 or 4 years. They took vacations and were home for dinner by 5 or 6 PM. They had a savings account in the bank. They didn't live in fear of not knowing if they'd even have a job next year.

That's all gone. I don't know if we can get it back, but I do know that Mr. Romney would love the chance to complete the final elimination of the middle class and the American Dream.

He must be stopped. Take 20 minutes on Tuesday and go vote. If you don't want to do it for your country, then do it for me! It's the only favor I'll ever ask of you.

Thanks for taking the time to read this. I know that you care, and care deeply, about your future and your kids' future. You have every right to be cynical about all this. And you hold the power to stop the bastards who plan on squeezing every last dime out of you that they can. Take a stand. And make a statement to those who are hoping against hope that you'll stay home on Tuesday. Your presence at the polls is what they fear most.

Go scare the s**t out of them! For me.