The window is closing. But there still is time.
I hate to say it, but America is falling apart. Bereft of new ideas; blank on trust, and yet, still full of good people. Little by little like piranha bites, more and more tiny pieces get taken out, before we can pull ourselves out of the water.
There is one way to change it. Bear me out.
You offer a challenger, one who is a leader, one who ignites the population. The solutions are there: yes, we’ll have to fix Medicare and social security….. sorry that is unpopular, but the writing on the wall says it has to be done…
Yes, we will have to go to single payer. sorry that is unpopular, but the writing on the wall says it has to be done…..
Yes. we will have to break up our large monopolies…. sorry that is unpopular, but the writing on the wall says it has to be done.
Yes, we will have to generate more revenue… That means raise taxes… sorry that is unpopular, but the writing on the wall says it has to be done…..
Everyone is scared to fix these… Of whom? Funny thing is, they don’t really know… But whomever it is, they’ll tell you, they are out there….
I disagree with this cowardice. I think that a person who has ideas that will fix a problem is more of a man than those who pretend the problem isn’t there.
I could be different than the rest of you, I don’t know. But that just makes sense to me… I know that if I had an underling who fixed problems for me, I’d promote him before I’d do it to someone who was slick, and always ran from risk.
So, here’s the path.
Someone well versed in solutions, makes a run against an incumbent Democrat from the left. That will do two things. Either he will win, or he will cause the other candidate to come out of his shell and be forced to go on record to support the left. In other words, we need to primary a blue dog who is too big to fail…
What that does is show a markable line, of where America’s electorate stands. We’ve seen how minimal conservative turnout is. We’ve seen exactly how tiny is that sliver of population in which conservative tendencies prevail… Oh, the main stream media led us to believe that conservatives are this gigantic force who may topple Obama in November….
Well, …………. where are these Conservatives who think they will topple Obama in November? They didn’t show up in Iowa? They didn’t show up in New Hampshire? They didn’t show up in South Carolina? They didn’t show up in Missouri, Wisconsin, Tennessee, Louisiana, Florida…. Just where is this paper tiger lurking? The one we are all supposed to be sooooooo afraid of?
That scenario on the other side, explains why we need to primary our incumbent who is too big to fail. We need to see how many people are progressive. Where is the line? After the primary, we will know.
Our current representatives think Delaware is more right than it really is. That is what they are told by people who make their livings off of political races. Obviously those people will tell candidates whatever it is that guarantees them a job. If there IS a giant conservative force, a candidate needs to spend millions to keep his seat. We need to stop listening to the professionals, and look at who is actually voting. It sure isn’t conservatives.
But since we have only had to compare our Senator against Bill Roth in recent memory, in this state we have an untested model …. No one knows where the number line that separates the progressive (thoughtful) souls from the conservative(lazy) in our party,… lies…
Can a progressive win in Delaware, a state that is safely blue? If yes, …then there is something solid in the ideas that progressives offer. That, is the direction that Americans want this nation to go. If no, then we’ll all know.
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May 1, 2012 at 8:01 am
anonymous
Democrats – United we stand.
Kaivps, your ‘hope’ sounds like ‘hope for republicans.’ Similar to what Nader did to dems or Christine did to Delaware republicans – divide and destroy. Peeling democrats off from the left or right would only weaken the democrat party. Take the Delaware republican party for example, weaken, divided, nonsensical; lying, scary, fringe driven; talking head rich against the middle class and poor, 1% and ill conceived corporate interests against American homegrown success; republicans against health and environmental survival; with greed driven republican pathology vs science; a republican party based on spewing lies, turning American against American, industry against nature, etc. Prime example: Delaware’s 99% polluted water ways, red alert air, pollution threaten drinking water aquifers, etc
Obama, all democrats’, (and all Americans’) best interests are to stand, stay, and vote together for the democrat party.
Obama in particular, needs a Congress rid of republican obstruction of recovery, republicans for stalemate; republican hatred, apathy and disregard of fellow man, their health and future social security; rid of republican lies, reduction of educational opportunities, rid of republican denial of science and survival; rid of middle class tax inequality, lack of American job opportunities, unlivable wages.
Obama and democrats can, have and will, continue to lead the country to full recovery from the ‘Republican Bush Co.’ years of destruction and provide ‘hope’ for a future that becomes ‘the peoples’ reality. The problem is not the democrat agenda, but the problem is republicans hell bent on the obstruction of the American dream. The 1% want it all.
A united democrat party is the ‘hope.’ A united democrat party is the American peoples’ greatest strength.
Democrats and republicans need to unite as Democrats, in the interests of, by and for the people, vs. the republicans’ deregulating, citizen crushing, corporate out sourcing, earth polluting, corporate interests that extreme, radical republicans have adapted to and nurtured to the point of becoming a diseased, all consuming, ravaging, monstrosity of grotesque, republican policy.
A reminder, the 1% richest in America, are managing quite well due to the destructive policies of the Bush Co years. It is the republican party all Americans should fear and unite against.
United, Democrats stand for all that is outstanding for all Americans.
May 1, 2012 at 8:26 am
kavips
We shall see. But did you ever wonder how much smiling history would have towards this nation, if General Washington had chosen to refrain from challenging General Gates’ for the leadership of the Continental Army?
The united party you speak of cannot be an army of robots. They will need fire, a reason to fight, and a vision of the future that makes the inconvenience of a war, worth the while.
Your vision lacks that.
May 1, 2012 at 10:48 am
anonymous
Battling republicans is always worthwhile.
Washington needs to battle the ruthless profiteers.
Republicans, of course, already have declared a war against the American people. Tune into Rush, et al, for their daily battle cries.
Americans, most importantly, need to vote republicans out of all political power to regain control of the government of the people. The battle, for now, will be at the poles. The peoples’ ‘fire’ is their all mighty will to survive. Prime example: corporate deregulation causing environmental destruction vs. future generations’ survival. If that isn’t flaming ‘fire’ enough, nothing, absolutely nothing, is. The question is, immediate, all consuming greed or …survival. A nation based on greed that destroys it’s own future, of course, will not survive.
There may be a ‘war’ between the selfish groups (generally repub) vs. the groups of altruists, generally democrats. For a future’s sake, the groups of altruists must win. Prime example: Republicans will do away with corporate regulations, the earth would soon bypass all tipping points – of no return, going from over releasing of CO2 to the ‘hopeless’ feedback systems of methane release from not so permafrost, melting bogs, tundra, shallow oceans, etc. Result: Humans worldwide, unable to survive the changing environments.
Both republicans and democrats are imperfect, but democrats have tendencies toward democratic principles. Obama and democrats had a willingness to ‘work’ with republicans, whereas, republicans, particularly with the inbreeding of extreme radical right wing, are non negotiable. Whereas republicans create fictional stories as democrats back science. Take for example, polluting corporations, their benefactors, gaining economically, socially, politically, due to – their destruction of the environment coupled with denial, dismissal, political power. A truly deadly combination.
For example, republicans call anthropogenic climate change good, man caused CO2 profitable, EPA unnecessary, regulations detrimental. A republican’s major human flaw is, their failure of conscience, even to the extent of global extinction, republicans instead choose profits by pollution.
Democracy, under republican annihilation, would become the greatest failure of mankind, it’s own mass extinction.
May 1, 2012 at 5:26 pm
anonymous
However….
An actual democrat needs to primary Carper.
Same as Christine did with Castle, on the same issue – profits by pollution, as known as cap and trade.
In 2006, Carper said his plan would “cap carbon dioxide levels at 2006 levels by the end of the decade. ” In 2006 CO2 level was 380 ppm. Now, just six years later, the March 2012, CO2 level is at 394.65 ppm and rising rapidly.
http://co2now.org/
That’s one tremendous, costly, folly, Carper. Too costly. Even more horrid than a Bush Co. oil war – CO2 is released, as supporters say GW is a hoax, global heating isn’t caused by man, a warming planet is a good thing, we need to de regulate, shut down the EPA, etc. – as the climate changes. (Same as the radical right told Castle.)
The real solution is ‘reducing’ CO2 releasing, replacing fossil fuel usage with clean energy.
Inhofe, who’s all about fossil fuel over usage, had said,
“Carper’s a different person,” “He would have more of a position toward the middle than Barbara. Barbara tends to be more polarized on the far left than he is. So in that respect, that might make it easier on some of these issues. There are some areas where we may want to compromise a little bit, and he would be more inclined to do that.”
O’Donnell of Clean Air Watch said “it would be a good thing in a lot of respects” if Carper took the reigns of the EPW Committee, in part because Boxer is perceived as highly partisan. (Note: The Environment and Public Works Committee’s jurisdiction includes responsibility for addressing climate change.)
“I think it is one of the little dark secrets that’s never discussed is that people all think Barbara Boxer is fantastic when it comes to content but she’s lacking when it comes to leadership and style,” he said. By contrast, O’Donnell added, “Carper’s a moderate but he’s a guy who has a proven track record of working with people from both parties.”(2008 NYT)
Should Delaware have a Senator in Washington, “who has a proven track record of working with people from both parties,” when Senator Inhofe (the Senate’s dangerous, top global warming skeptic) has warm global feelings for Carper?
The question is: Do Delawareans have a ‘so called’ democrat, ‘working’ with skeptic republicans and major polluting corporate interests?
What we needed all along, was a real democrat from Delaware, who would have heeded the advice of the world’s legitimate, leading climate scientists (reduce CO2 emissions now,) regarding the world’s climate ..not a senator who would become Inhofe’s ‘pet democrat.’
Mr. Carper, you were wrong claiming your plan would reduce CO2 in a decade. The truth is, anthropogenic CO2 is measurable and rising rapidly. 280 ppm CO2 is the pre industrial normal, with 300 ppm the upper limit that must be met to lessen climate disasters. Interested in hearing what corporation interests coupled with political procrastination has wrought upon the public?
http://www.dbcca.com/dbcca/EN/carbon-counter.jsp
Primary Carper.
Have Carper ‘defend’ his failed CO2 reduction plan. Have Carper ‘defend’ the trillions of dollars being lost to climate change; the lack of ‘actual’ CO2 reduction leadership. Calculate instead, the profits by pollution as critical time is lost by political inaction. Have Carper defend the CO2 free releasing as a non pollutant, defend the delayed upgradings and retro fittings, the still in use, outdated over-polluting coal burners. Have Carper explain the lack of State and National Environmental leadership. Have Carper explain away the cascading environmental damages, the massive lethal, activated feedback (methane) systems, the delays in developing, using clean technologies; the natural resource destruction, the hundreds of millions in costly coastal ‘renurishment’, the flooding coastal areas, back bay, wetland areas; the political maneuvering to protect coal, cash cow smokestacks. Have Carper defend the ‘clean coal lie,’ the acidification of the oceans, the melting arctic regions, the melting permafrost, melting Greenland, the dying forests, the changing weather currents, the extreme storms, droughts, forest fires, sinking islands, extreme temperatures, the dwindling and confused wildlife, the rising global temperature, the threat to drinking water aquifers and food supplies, the extreme threat to future generations. Have Carper defend the ‘real costs’ of CO2 profiteering. Have Carper defend America’s position, as the second largest releaser of CO2. Have Carper explain why the high price of present day CO2 releasing, should be passed off to future generations. Ask Carper about the public right to clean air, lands and waters. Have Carper explain why polluting interests’ profits are more important than sound planning for future generations. Have Carper defend the use of words such as ‘conservation’ and ‘sustainability,’ if not politically regulated. Have Carper explain how ‘conservation’ is effective, if smokestacks release more CO2 anyway. Have Carper defend the failed CO2 plan, and the lack of clean and adequate amounts of replacement energy whre possible. Ask Carper if environmental destruction is a necessary evil, or a deliberate evil choice involving immediate profits which threaten the livable planet of the voiceless.
Ask Carper why America has lost it’s place of leadership among nations, to become a nation that can’t/won’t even deal with it’s own CO2 – and soon, its’ effects. That’s powerless. Isn’t that how Inhofe likes ‘democrats?’