Yeah, we get it emily. The RW are the "goodies" and the left are the "baddies".
What I think is downright goofy is the RW being anti-government. What the heck did we have a Revolution, Declaration of Independence, Constitution and Bill of Rights for?
A government "by the people and for the people." It didn't say just the RW people. It means ALL citizens.
The RW doesn't mind the government at all as long as their interests are served by it.
Dear
Dhara
Don't you think both left and right demonize each other equally?
I am a progressive Democrat who aligns more with Greens since they promote self-governing solutions
that are more sustainable without this political dependence on govt that has hijacked the Democrats base.
I tend to criticize my own Party because I believe I am responsible for what my colleagues do.
If I were a Muslim I would be publicly outspoken on those issues, as my responsibility for what fellow Muslims do. I can support Muslims who take this responsibility seriously.
I've got a full time job just fixing the messes made by Democrat leaders who abused taxdollars
to destroy whole communities. So that is my full time focus, since Democrats will only listen to fellow
Democrats.
The Republicans and Conservatives ARE busy organizing around Constitutional principles to check their own party leaders. I see them as more successful because they invoke the Constitution. There were even reforms to the GOP platform, pushed by the progay supporters, that successfully cleaned up very biased unfair language in the Republican principles. I applaud that, and wish the Democrats would invoke the same.
But over and over I run into the same weakness among Democrats and Liberals.
The lack of Constitutional education, experience and authority.
Because the tendency is to teach people they don't have this authority.
They have to depend on voting OTHER politicians into office to defend rights.
There is NO teaching going on about defending rights directly by defending Constitutional laws
and principles per se.
When I brought this concept to fellow progressive, liberal and Democrat leaders on a LOCAL level,
when I PERSONALLY share it with them, they respond. They tend to support it as a good idea.
But then they feel overwhelmed that too much political pressure is for getting party candidates elected.
So unfortunately all the resources, all the time to organize efforts and education goes into more politics.
More getting the votes out for the most electable candidates.
The focus is NEVER on liberating the people directly by teaching them the Constitutional laws.
So sorry but that is where I DO Give credit to conservative Republicans Christians and Tea Party
for at least TRYING to teach people the laws and how to use them to invoke authority to CHECK GOVT.
I see the opposite happening in the Democrat camp.
The Liberals and progressives pushing for liberation don't do this by citing Constitutional laws.
The Greens push for worker coops, health care coops, investing directly in green solutions and fair trade.
Very similar to the conservative idea of free market and self government to empower people.
So there is a movement WITHIN the liberal Democrats to stop the abusive politicking going on.
The bad guys within the Democrats are coming under fire from the grassroots progressives.
same with the Republicans trying to fight to stop the CAREER politicians from railroading
their way over the real Constitutionalists.
There are bad guys in both camps messing up the parties for everyone else.
If we can get the good guys with good ideas and solutions in BOTH camps
to ALIGN and invest campaign funds directly into empowering people to create develop and run their
own programs to solve political problems, maybe the good guys in BOTH camps can win.
