Formal Unendorsement
At this time, I am choosing to formally unendorse and distance my support from the national Democratic Party.
While I have forgiven their capitulation repeatedly, including making no discernible efforts to stop the recent radical right-wing takeover of the supreme court, today's Senate vote where a greater than threefold majority of Democrats voted for a noxious, liberty-killing "Patriot Act" pushed by an unelected "president" with a current approval rating of 34%, I am flat out of excuses for them.
I believe now that even a Democrat presidency with a Democrat-majority congress is unlikely to bring significant improvement against the rapid slide of our nation deeper into the cesspool.
I urge all people of good-will in this nation to come together to explore all peaceful and non-violent means outside of the political system to bring a better life to our people. The solutions will not be found through either the republican or democratic party to any extent at all in the foreseeable future.
posted by Ryvr @ 8:42 PM
4 Comments:
I think to some extent we need the political system--it does run our country. However, if enough like minded people get together, we have the opportunity for a "new party" to get some seats and maybe effect the needed changes. Yes, it's slow but it could work.
Other than charitable organizations, what did you have in mind?
Good thoughts bonnie ... I agree at least that we will need/be able to use the political system once we have done some other work.
I expect to blog some more detailed ideas, but basically what I see is that we need to develop a collective "dream" of a positive future for our people, by talking, music, art, etc., and to harness our energy by bringing our communities together and celebrating ourselves and our humanity. I hope you will give some of your ideas and some feedback on mine that I will be posting in the coming days.
Peace,
Ryvr
You are blogmarked over at BE. I look forward to reading more of your ideas-
Thanks! I love your blog. Just occurring to me now that I could cultivate increased "mindful blogging" ... Jai Guru Thich Naht Hahn Aum!
Peace,
Ryvr
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