Down With Absolutes is gone. Burris and RSmitty are out. Libertarians are on the sideline. Tom Ross’s Republican Party is pathetic. The Daniello Democrats are not much more vibrant.

Among all the goodbyes, lurks some despondent griping about blogging.

I can see why.

When I started in 2006 there was a battle taking place between God and the devil over the very soul of this nation. God won. The devil is still around, stopping by $500,000 fundraisers occasionally as the main speaker, but for all intents in purposes, the war is over. Good won.

So now the fun is gone…

But the evil hasn’t. A Democrat, Mr. Pam Scott, is poised to ruin New Castle County forever, by overbuilding us into the Harlem of the Mid Atlantic. Sussex County, is likewise, at the prodding of the Rich Collins and Mark Baker contingency, about to destroy the specially quality that makes living below the canal so special. As we speak, Health Care reform is under attack from billionaires concerned only with keeping as much of our money as possible, and giving us out little in return. And it’s a democrat, Tom Carper, who is listening to them….

The option of cheap energy, a concept that makes so much sense to all, is under attack by moneyed interests, more concerned with keeping our higher prices propped up artificially on a dwindling supply of sources than on making us competitive on a world market because we have extremely low energy costs.

For me, blogging as gotten more exciting.

As I read the parting diatribes of yesterday’s local heroes, I found myself asking why I was different. The response from within was rapid. It was this: I feel my work makes a big difference. I may be a fool, but that is a distinction only time can offer. Contemporary peers who have uttered such, often find themselves in that category (of fools) as time marches past their quickly offered aphorisms.

I really feel I do make a big difference.

Not personally, but what I do offers a viable opportunity for others to see a different perspective from the one being force-fed them by their “bought out” sources. Those in power have to contend with that…

Facts are inconsequential, only if they are kept silent. Silence is what I don’t do well.

So here is my proposition.

With so much talent circulating statewide at this moment, why don’t we of bloggerdom, all of which see things through mostly the same eyes.. (it’s called midstream)…. start a new, vibrant political party, one that can actually offer voters a difference from the status quo? Being a fresh party, we can create ourselves from scratch; evolve from the pieces scattered by our predecessors, and mold ourselves, sort of as did our founding fathers, when the opportunity to invent the United States of America presented itself to them.

We won’t always agree. But, we could survive, and thereby make a difference.

Even if we don’t win at first, by running, by being there, by being exciting, by being vibrant, by being more interesting than our opponents, we can force perusal of those issues that need to be said. Just by being there, we can prevent the usual sweeping of what’s beneficial to us, under the rug to appease those who have run this state wrong for so long.

Third parties have come and gone. Usually that is because the media is bribed against covering them as if they had any importance. But today, the media is trusted less than those running themselves. Talk about a turn of events. If the opportunity were ever to exist in our lifetimes, giving us a chance to make the choice that changes the future for our children, it is in today’s political climate.

Who is with me on exploring this idea further?

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