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Electra for President!

Nice post, Dan, and I cannot disagree. I would prefer to see some platform "meat" also, but politiks in this country is Looney Toons. In fact, in my naivete' I imagine that the democratic party could and should stop letting the R's steal our thunder. I'd prefer to take the battle to the front lines and actually argue public policy issues. At least over time, people would eventually be far less naive, and subject to deception like they are currently.

And if there were different candidates for this current campaign then I'd feel even more strongly about the need to actually debate the issues. The reason I am not in need of that right now is that the candidates are lining up on diametrically opposed positions, even if they are not giving us details. For example, there is an ideology at work in our society right now which seems to conclude that what's good for business is good for people. I happen to disagree with that, not just somewhat, but VIGOROUSLY. If I were emperor, we'd have an economic system that I would proudly call "capitalism," but I would dispel the myth that citizens need to make many deep sacrifices so that "business" can have the "freedom" it needs to make us all happy and secure. Our current president seems to be the most bold-faced anti-worker pro-corporation president we (hopefully) will ever have to tolerate. His world and my world are terribly different, and he and I disagree COMPLETELY on this and many other very fundamental issues. A crack-whore's a$$-zit would at least probably not wage open war on working men and women. And that's just one issue. There are many others, and on virtually all of them, he and I disagree diametrically.

And here's another thought. It has been my experience that democrats like government, use government to address problems of society, and know how to operate that kind of machinery. Republicans, in my experience, hate government and look toward private industry to solve the problems. Their hatred for government runs so deep that their efforts tend to focus on either getting rid of it, or making it work poorly so as to gain support for deregulation, paving the way for higher profits. Well, if you're going to have government, then who would you rather have in charge? A party that understands and knows how to work it, or a party of anarchists? My feeling is that if Kerry and/or the democratic party were to step forward and explain how things work, and how we would like to approach certain objectives, there would be citizens smart enough to "get it." I mean many (probably most Americans by the way...traitors to folks like Mul) citizens already "get it." The target would be the gullible ones who have bought into the fantasy that government is evil. Government is "them." Government should be abolished. The truth is, government is not "them" unless we're not participating or paying attention. Government, in truth, is "us." And government is not going to be abolished. It's here to stay. Unless you're Mul, in which case your fantasy world and your reality world are one and the same.