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The voters of America have rejected the status quo. They rejected lies, corruption, and the consolidation of power. They rejected propaganda and the politics of fear. It seems they even rejected the agenda of Fox News.
I've had a taut, sinking feeling about the negative shift in the political and cultural makeup of the United States for several years. I think it initiated when the rumblings of an invasion of Iraq was first considered in 2002. The apprehension was exacerbated when administration lackey Colin Powell performed the heinous Republican wardance before the United Nations in February 2003, where he presented the flimsiest of evidence regarding "weapons of mass destruction" in Iraq.
And for over three years now the citizens of the United States have watched the country's respectability and standing, both at home and abroad, slowly and steadily erode. We who wanted to somehow save the country, to return to common sense and American ideals of freedom, stood angrily bound on the sidelines as the warmongers, liars, and thieves stole the United States away from the people.
These withering feelings did not ebb until the night of the mid-term elections on November 7. The feeling gradually lifted throughout the day on the 8th. Finally, the system of checks and balances was back in place after too many years of sanctimonious and misguided one party rule.
One party rule is China. Cuba. Syria. Iran. It conjures images of the Soviet Union. That is not America. And if I might place tongue-in-cheek and borrow a hackneyed term from the duplicitous neo-cons, to espouse and champion the warped ideal of one party power is tantamount to treason.
Please don't read too deeply between the lines here - I'm not even a Democrat. I'm an Independent whose political views lean toward the Libertarian, and that is usually where my votes go. We must allow additional political parties and disparate voices into the current system - offer viable alternatives to rote methods - for true progress to become attainable in this country. To have Presidential debates between a mere two candidates who too often are mirror reflections of each other is absurd - and even insulting.
This exhortation is not declaring the Democratic Party saviors of the American soul. Their claim on both houses of Congress is probably not going to fully mend bitter rifts or heal the lesions that have been inflicted on the country by the callous shortsightedness of Republican rule. There is the chance the Dems could accomplish nothing. But for now I want to avoid cynicism and not state that it will be political business-as-usual in Washington. I want to hold on to this sense of sanguinity, at least for a while. There is the chance that the Democrats could push the U.S. in a positive direction. And as mentioned, the crucial scheme of checks and balances is restored.
And that, not only for the people of the United States but also for the citizens of the world, is a prodigious relief.
I've had a taut, sinking feeling about the negative shift in the political and cultural makeup of the United States for several years. I think it initiated when the rumblings of an invasion of Iraq was first considered in 2002. The apprehension was exacerbated when administration lackey Colin Powell performed the heinous Republican wardance before the United Nations in February 2003, where he presented the flimsiest of evidence regarding "weapons of mass destruction" in Iraq.
And for over three years now the citizens of the United States have watched the country's respectability and standing, both at home and abroad, slowly and steadily erode. We who wanted to somehow save the country, to return to common sense and American ideals of freedom, stood angrily bound on the sidelines as the warmongers, liars, and thieves stole the United States away from the people.
These withering feelings did not ebb until the night of the mid-term elections on November 7. The feeling gradually lifted throughout the day on the 8th. Finally, the system of checks and balances was back in place after too many years of sanctimonious and misguided one party rule.
One party rule is China. Cuba. Syria. Iran. It conjures images of the Soviet Union. That is not America. And if I might place tongue-in-cheek and borrow a hackneyed term from the duplicitous neo-cons, to espouse and champion the warped ideal of one party power is tantamount to treason.
Please don't read too deeply between the lines here - I'm not even a Democrat. I'm an Independent whose political views lean toward the Libertarian, and that is usually where my votes go. We must allow additional political parties and disparate voices into the current system - offer viable alternatives to rote methods - for true progress to become attainable in this country. To have Presidential debates between a mere two candidates who too often are mirror reflections of each other is absurd - and even insulting.
This exhortation is not declaring the Democratic Party saviors of the American soul. Their claim on both houses of Congress is probably not going to fully mend bitter rifts or heal the lesions that have been inflicted on the country by the callous shortsightedness of Republican rule. There is the chance the Dems could accomplish nothing. But for now I want to avoid cynicism and not state that it will be political business-as-usual in Washington. I want to hold on to this sense of sanguinity, at least for a while. There is the chance that the Democrats could push the U.S. in a positive direction. And as mentioned, the crucial scheme of checks and balances is restored.
And that, not only for the people of the United States but also for the citizens of the world, is a prodigious relief.
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