Right vs. Left. Dem vs. Rep. Progressive vs. Conservative. It's all baloney...
In response to an article on Blogcritics, I whipped out a comment that I thought was woirth reposting here at Delibernbation with a few edits...
I used to think that the far right fringe were the enemy -- I AM WRONG. Our enemy is polarization and the perpetuation thereof. I get kicked to the ground because I support Brown because the left thinks it's impossible to support the Brown cause and be Progressive. I get kicked to the ground by the far right because I believe under the law marriage is nothing more than a legal and binding contract between two people. The Right thinks it's impossible to be Progressive and Christian. All you fringes can go ye forth and multiply.
- We have problems in this country that weren't caused by one party or ideology. Deal with it.
- The free market system in its present form is a complete and utter failure. Government needs to lay down the ground rules, set forth the regulations and get out of the way.
- We need health care for every American, period. And that is accomplished by a not for profit health system whereby health insurance is regulated by antitrust laws. That makes sense -- something which is completely foreign to us in America.
- We need to start empowering families to be families again. And yes that means it does take a village. It took a village in the old days, it takes a bigger village now. It's not Progressive thinking, folks, it's at the very heart of the whole "family values" shtick but the far right doesn't want you to know it.
- We must have education reform where personal accountability and civic duty are the cornerstones of the system. Teachers who do their jobs should get paid -- well. And teachers who don't should be stripped of their union protections and sent to Burger King for a counter job.
- Like it or not there has to be a redistribution of wealth in the United States. Right now the little guy's wealth is being distributed to the fat cats on Wall Street and to the health insurance industry. And that wealth is spent in advertising messages to us telling us what we should or should not do. It's time to break apart the super banks and get back to community banking where local bankers and consumers make the decisions for their local markets. And if that means dissolving the Fed in favor of local currencies or (gasp) going to a global currency so be it. The dollar is dying, so instead of spending trillions trying to revive it, let's just kill it. Somebody call Dr. Kevorkian.
- It's time to become a part of the global community. We need to realize that the old ways of doing business around the globe are ineffective. We've sold our souls to countries who provide us substandard products made in unsafe factories by people who earn shit wages. Our own addiction to consumerism got us into this mess. There's more to living than worrying how many video games are on the shelf or how many pairs of shoes we own in the closet. We need to start talking to our own contemporaries around the globe and start coming up with answers which benefit the family of Man not the American elite.
I don't support everything Scott Brown stands for. But you know what? If Martha Coakley won yesterday, there wouldn't be the debate which rages this morning in Washington. American Imperialism is dead, folks. Massachusetts voters didn't send Brown to the Senate because they're becoming Conservative. We're sending him there to say - enough! Both sides of the aisle had best get together and hammer out some solutions real fast -- this is a revolution against incumbents -- Black/White, Democrat/Republican; Progressive/Conservative; Olbermann/Limbaugh.
We need to get our asses out of political situations where we are just not going to accomplish a thing. If we facilitate a way to wean off the Arab petroleum tit, we're going to be in better shape. If we stop depending on the Chinese to bail us out of every mess we created for ourselves, we'll save ourselves from becoming the United States of Beijing. And we need to understand how our own elected officials sold us all down the river for that proverbial 30 pieces of silver that they received from the real enemy - K Street. Deal with reality. Sweep the slate clean. Let's start again. Otherwise, we're dead.
