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My heart literally tells me that I do not have a primary candidate. I will have a GE candidate, but I just don't think I have a primary candidate since Edwards suspended.
I have a candidate who will I think be less electable, it is the candidate the RWNM has been prepping for since 92. I have another candidate I fear might be shot mid election. Neither of them, as great as they are seem adequately engaged with the situations we currently have and face upcoming.
Frankly, I think that any involvement by insurance companies with universal care is like Medicare Plan D, but a mile high, and rabid.
I think that the cost of supporting an imperial military has already grievously wounded the American economy, and the moral cost of a professional military class as a part of the mix has yet to show its true perniciousness. Like the free companies returning to England after the treaty of Bretégny in the Hundred Years War, the hellhounds of Iraq are soon to be the hellhounds of San Diego, as they already were for New Orleans.
For these reasons alone, the age of Oil must draw to as rapid a twilight as we can manage.
I think a candidate who does not face this front and center fails to address the next set of challenges. Katrina was not just the failure of FEMA, it was also the sucess of Blackwater at bringing back the days of the Pinkerton agency and the Ford Motor Co massacre.
Sadly, I don't see them getting it yet. But perhaps the economy can refocus thinking by the strategists of my donkey party. Pursuing the largess of the corporate entities and the uber-rich instead of the huge tide of voters is not a good idea.
When the current power brokers of our party realize that the 08 mandate makes the 06 mandate seem like a polite suggestion, it would not surprise me if they decide to get out of the way. Their generation across the aisle already are. The pundits and strategists of the third way are deserving their cashout, their concept has lived its lifespan. And hey, what a crazy, giddy lifespan it was.
I personally went a decade almost without rest. "Code monkey say maybe manager wanna write goddamn login page himself" as Jonathon Coulton sings. That sort of thing takes a lot out of you, and Bill has already had a heart attack. It takes something out of you, unless you turn to the dark side.
I am not just talking about candidates here. Part of the disaster of the Bush administration was the apotheosis of the marginalia of earlier administrations. Let's not do that ourselves.
We cannot afford anything less than single payer... no, I guess I mean I can't.
My last point will possibly get me little love. But this one *is* about we instead of me.
We need the majority of Green Party voters back. We need to get every one of them back into the fold. We do that by putting Gore's environmental values out as a front and center issue and adding the anti-globalist anti-corporatist platforms that are consistent with Democratic traditional values of reform. Globalism is going to take one in the head from petroleum costs in shipping reducing the profitability of Chinese labor.
China has physically closer trading partners, and the wealth to encourage its huge internal market-- and could eventually take a short position on America as a result.
Our ownership society, wherein most of us are owned, is as tender and over-balanced as the Mary Rose. as it capsizes, it won't jettison money. The value will bury itself in the muddy river bottom, perhaps for as long as the Mary Rose did.
If we can weld Gore's post carbon economy with corporate reform, and Edwards sensitivity to the dangerous inbalance of wealth, the combined effect of that would, with the de-lamination of the wide stance coalition, change the face of America politically in a way that might just save the planet.
And I believe that hope for us all rests on hope for all our children. And I think maybe that might become more apparent this year. I am sad for how that is likely to become more apparent.
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