Wa-hoo! Our Work Is Well Begun.

Sometimes democracy really works! With the American House of Repre- sentatives being swept by progressive and other Democratic candidates, an important step towards restoring sanity has been taken. It looks like control of the Senate will be in limbo for a while as the suddenly fond-of-recounting Republican Party insists on recounting the votes in Virginia.

(Our most immediate magical need now is to saturate the state of Virginia with spells to make sure every single vote is counted correctly and that any illegal activities are quickly exposed.)

I have to admit to be really surprised that there were so few problems with the electronic voting machines and the new election laws in so many states (only a few thousand reports instead of a few million). Perhaps the Republicans just decided that the polls were so indicative of a landslide that they didn’t want to get caught stealing another election — especially with tens of thousands of self-appointed journalists showing up at the polls with cameras — but I’d like to credit our spellcasting of protection and justice around the polls as having played a role as well.

This is not the end of the job, however, since there is plenty of work remaining for American progressives. The House and Senate are still going to be full of people in both political parties who have enabled the Administration’s vile, unamerican, and treasonous policies. People who voted for an unending “war” against a military tactic, who voted to allow the invasion of Iraq for the benefit of Exxon-Mobile and Halliburton, who voted to gut the Constitution, who voted for kidnapping and torture of suspected “terrorists,” who voted to avoid investigating war profiteering and corruption…

Spells for Democracy will still need to be cast in the months and years to come. Progressives within the various political parties will need to find new candidates to run against the enablers in 2008’s primary and general elections. We will be able to assist by doing more revelation spells to expose more crime and corruption in the White House and Congress. Prime targets for these spells should be corporate lackeys enslaved by lobbiest bribes — beginning with those who come from states with progressive governors who could replace them with honest progressives.

We can also work on spells to support real election, campaign, and lobbying reforms that will open up the political process to multiple political parties and make the entire process as transparent and open as possible. This will require us to keep track of such issues on a regular basis by reading right-wing, left-wing, and middle-of-the-bird political blogs and websites, plus doing our our research into the complexities involved in true reforms. We will need to set up databases to keep track of all the info.

I’m planning to devote most of the spring and summer of 2008 to coordinating the research necessary to make our magical work as precise, focused, and effective as possible. I hope that the other members of our Spells for Democracy e-group will stay with the process for as long as is necessary to create an America we can all be proud of again.