Revolutions are not Cautious

One must be very cautious when revolting.  History, that long ignored record of our past, tells us if we listen, that change, revolution comes with an uncertain past and future.  That famous admonition that those who do not know their past are doomed to repeat it, is balance by the bleak reality that even when we know our past, there is no guarantee that we are less doomed.

So House Candidates are running away from Pelosi as Speaker is the Democrats take the House.  I think that is a good sign, but there is a greater need to make sure we have somewhere to run rather than just away.

Ever since the National Democratic Convention in Chicago, in the year 1968, 40 years ago, the Democratic Party has drifted in  uncertainty about what they really stand for. The answer seems to be continually a money center Corporate Party. We already have one of those. We do not really need another.  I keep hearing that Democrats are Progressive, but I do not know what that means.  It sounds a lot like a Party that does not have the courage to take a stand, and be assertive in our goals and decisions.

Change takes time and we must understand that, but determination of direction has to be certain before one heads in to the future or one finds them self lost and confused about where they want to go. When I went back to regular duty at Darnell Army Hospital I was in Medical Holding.  I had a Wall above the head of my bed and I posted things there that were questionable because there was a picture of Eldridge Cleaver with it.

If I am going to be smeared by being derisively called "LIBERAL", then I might as well be myself and a Long Term Liberal.  Maybe even a Socialist.  The direction we are going now - toward fascism - certainly is not the way we need to go. There is not a whiff of difference between the two parties in actuality, and that does need to change.

We need to find and support people who walk the walk and talk the talk to lead us.  I am from Texas and that is a statement politically of reality not pride.  Our Politicians are a joke.  For 100 years our state was nominally Democrat and was so because Lincoln was a Republican.  Reagan made it safe to be a Republican again and the entire south suddenly were Republicans again. Great way to develop political plans and programs.

Right now I have found two maybe three candidates that I can with clear conscious support with my time and money.  One local (State) office seeker, and one national (Senate) office seeker.  The one seeking a seat in Congress would be some one that might have the courage, platform, and exposure to change the direction of the Democratic Party.

I will not support any one who I do not think can and wants to move the Party a bit further toward the left.  We need to have candidates that step in the path that Thomas Jefferson followed when writing the Declaration of Independence.  What a radical Document.  We need to again fix our radicalism in the founders actions of making a new Creature called a Democracy. A Government of the people and for the people, not the money changers.