Progressive Democrat Issue 58: THOUGHTS
I'm going to keep this issue short since we all are more focused on New Year's than we are on politics. This issue will mainly be focused on a non-political project I want to introduce you to, but I also want to make a few comments on politics in 2005.
2005 was quite a year. 2005 was the year when the tide began to turn against Bush and his administration of corrupt, greedy men. The sad thing is that it took many deaths for that tide to turn.
People began to realize that so many soldiers were dying in Iraq and they cannot figure out why. Why are we in Iraq? No one really knows because Bush has changed his tune about 6 or 7 times now. Each soldier that dies makes us question yet again why we are there. And the longer we are there, the more we realize that those deaths are for nothing.
Katrina showed us on a dramatic and tragic scale what we already knew--that the Republican philosophy of drowning government leads to the death of American citizens. And, it illustrated equally dramatically and tragically, that the deaths caused by Republican destruction of government falls most heavily on the poor. It also showed that, because of the wealth discrepancies in this nation, poor all too often means minorities. Poor blacks were left to die in the wake of Katrina. Bush and Cheney showed an amazing lack of concern until it became clear to them that they were suffering in the polls because of their callousness. Funny that they didn't even realize that leaving poor blacks to die might be unpopular in the United States.
The increasing sense of failure and uselessness over Iraq and the stark failure of the Federal government in Katrina were, in my mind, the two main turning points in 2005. Looking to 2006, the Democratic Party has to be united and solidly populist and progressive to win. The Republicans have clearly failed America and, as of 2005, America has become very aware of that. Now it is time for us Democrats to plug ourselves as the competant, compassionate alternative.
Given the great successes of the Clinton Administration, that shouldn't be difficult. But our own infighting and the blatant bias of the media as well as increasing fraud in American elections endangers our chance.
Be ready to stand up for democracy and America in 2006. Be ready to fight in 2006.
In this week's issue, however, I want to turn for a moment from our fights here in the United States and I want to introduce you to a non-political project I have been focusing on in an attempt to create a grassroots movement to help East Africa. The integrated approach I am proposing is outlined below. This project has been going on for nearly a month and has received some positive attention. And some very tangible effects have already happened. If you are interested in an international, non-partisan effort, please read on.
2005 was quite a year. 2005 was the year when the tide began to turn against Bush and his administration of corrupt, greedy men. The sad thing is that it took many deaths for that tide to turn.
People began to realize that so many soldiers were dying in Iraq and they cannot figure out why. Why are we in Iraq? No one really knows because Bush has changed his tune about 6 or 7 times now. Each soldier that dies makes us question yet again why we are there. And the longer we are there, the more we realize that those deaths are for nothing.
Katrina showed us on a dramatic and tragic scale what we already knew--that the Republican philosophy of drowning government leads to the death of American citizens. And, it illustrated equally dramatically and tragically, that the deaths caused by Republican destruction of government falls most heavily on the poor. It also showed that, because of the wealth discrepancies in this nation, poor all too often means minorities. Poor blacks were left to die in the wake of Katrina. Bush and Cheney showed an amazing lack of concern until it became clear to them that they were suffering in the polls because of their callousness. Funny that they didn't even realize that leaving poor blacks to die might be unpopular in the United States.
The increasing sense of failure and uselessness over Iraq and the stark failure of the Federal government in Katrina were, in my mind, the two main turning points in 2005. Looking to 2006, the Democratic Party has to be united and solidly populist and progressive to win. The Republicans have clearly failed America and, as of 2005, America has become very aware of that. Now it is time for us Democrats to plug ourselves as the competant, compassionate alternative.
Given the great successes of the Clinton Administration, that shouldn't be difficult. But our own infighting and the blatant bias of the media as well as increasing fraud in American elections endangers our chance.
Be ready to stand up for democracy and America in 2006. Be ready to fight in 2006.
In this week's issue, however, I want to turn for a moment from our fights here in the United States and I want to introduce you to a non-political project I have been focusing on in an attempt to create a grassroots movement to help East Africa. The integrated approach I am proposing is outlined below. This project has been going on for nearly a month and has received some positive attention. And some very tangible effects have already happened. If you are interested in an international, non-partisan effort, please read on.
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