Across the Aisle

We need to take a lesson from our Republocrat brothers and sisters. They have learned how to organize themselves from the top down and the ground up. They know how to drive a wedge between comrades, and leave faction where solidarity once was.

We need to cause factions within the Two-Headed-Beast-Party. The Republican Party is right now without leadership. They are a ship adrift, with no real vision of who they are and what they represent. They are viciously fighting over whether or not Rush Limbaugh is the Leader of the Party and the vision; they are desperately grabbing for women and people of color they can haul up to vindicate their assholery. Across the spectrum of elected Republicans and talking heads, there is no cohesion and no central loyalty.

The Democrats are likewise in a precarious position. They swept through the general elections in the autumn-with the legacy of their trillion dollar bail out for Wall Street. They now have a "Recovery Plan" that, like all else they do, will be scorned, manipulated and and rendered dangerous by Republican shenanigans. The bail out was, after Republican maneuvering, laden wit porkola...much like the Recovery Act. Even though they now dominate Congress and the Executive Branch, they are quite aware of their limitations, their lack of imagination and their fear of losing power to the Republicans in 2010. They took the Congress in '06-and instead of acting on their pledges, they suspended the Constitution and began campaigning for the '08 general election. Well-the campaign never stops-and Iraq, Afghanistan, health care, unemployment-they really stand a chance of continuing to be campaign rallying points.

These two parties play ball with our lives needlessly. The power struggles they engage in, not only with each other, but with the People and with all other Parties. The way that they attacked Ralph Nader, a man who has done more for this country than any other American, was accepted on the grounds of Ralph Nader being of the Green Party-and a nut. That is their game with us, those of us who will not accept their theft of our country. If you dare stand up and speak truth, even if you have been praised and lauded for it for forty years (like Mr Nader), if you stand up and speak the same truth while running for office, you are a fool, you are the other-not to be trusted. How can anyone who sees as clearly and with such dedication to equality before the law as a Nader or a McKinney, how can they be deemed crazy. The crazy are those who continually vote for these liars and thieves. The only way you will get a parties ear is by not voting for them-by proving you will vote for those who have the cajones to stand up and speak for you.

While the Demopublicans who have run for office for the last eight years have attacked anyone outside their fold, their hypocrisy has been excused and condoned by the press and the public. Obama or Bush may collaborate with whatever corporation or organization to bar the other candidates for the Presidency from debating. They may surveil these people; intimidate and threaten; smear, slander and degrade. Their mockery for anyone who seeks to attain that office without leaving behind the People is contempt for the People themselves. They preach, they intone their Gods, yet they turn and offer nothing of the love of their Lord to their worthy opponents.

Electoral politics are not the be all, end all...but they play a big role. If we want a society where we are truly free and equal, then we must drive wedges between these Republocrats. We must find the Progressives within, and strengthen them-show them how real their dreams can be. And the minority of assholes bent on owning all of us-well they will have no choice but to form a hideous coalition, and finally bed down for the long haul. That is how we seize power-that is how we take back Congress and the Legislatures; we divide and conquer. We dispel with idiocies like the electoral college and give to ourselves a world made new.

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"The people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of Patriotism and exposing the country to danger."
Herman Goering

A Year for Strong Women

Through the process of electoral politics this year, we have been blessed with the voices of some strong women. Cynthia McKinney, running on the Green Party ticket for President with VP Rosa Clemente, and Cindy Sheehan, running as an Independent in California's 8th Congressional District.

McKinney was the first House member to introduce articles of impeachment against state terrorists George Bush, Dick Cheney and Condoleeza Rice. Throughout the aftermath of September 11th, McKinney did not shy away from demanding real investigations into the many unanswered questions surrounding the event. She bravely called out the grave possibility (and as we learned, reality) of the administration having prior knowledge of an imminent attack. She voted against the illegal invasion of Iraq and has fought the anti-Constitutional legislation drives of the last eight years.

Cindy Sheehan has also been a loud voice for accountability. From her days camping in front of the Bush "ranch" in Crawford, TX to running for Congress, Sheehan has looked the corporate beast in the face and called it by its name. Not one to mince words, Sheehan has stated quite plainly that Bush is a terrorist and that domestic surveillance, illegal war, rendition and torture and the takeover of America by the Federal Reserve and Wall Street amount to a coup.

These two women stand far above the level of integrity that any Hilary Clinton, Sarah Palin or Nancy Pelosi could ever reach. It takes uncompromising dedication to something much larger than one's self to speak as a defender of freedom. Neither of these ladies has been co-opted by the corporate power structure. Neither of these women are willing to make compromises with the elite for the sake of a political career.

In the wake of the elections, as America celebrates the soon to be end of the Bush Regime, the voices of Cynthia McKinney and Cindy Sheehan will continue to lead the People. The clarity of vision, the true change that these fine Americans bring to the national discourse is vital. It is the strength of such ladies that forged the Revolutionary generation. It is their faith in what freedom means, and how tangible it truly is, that sets the souls of a nation ablaze for something brighter. Neither lady is serving in elected office this year, but neither lady is backing down from the fight, and neither lady has abdicated her duty to the defense of Liberty.