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DEMOCRATIC GREATNESS
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DEMOCRATIC GREATNESS
The other morning William Rusher took off after the Democratic party. He went into some detail and great length how democrats are becoming more and more a coalition of minorities who do not always agree with each other. "Many black Democrats, for example, are no friends of the pro-abortion crowd, or the gay lobby, let alone the secularists," proclaimed Bill and that is true. But, to my way of thinking, that is the strength of the Democratic party. The preamble, if you'll forgive a repitition, states, "We the people of the United States..."
It does not say, "We the black people, we the pro-choice people, we the straights, we the gays, we the believers, we the non-believers..." It stated...simply, surely, and well...first thing: WE THE PEOPLE. The problem, as I see it, is that it's difficult to identify with 'people.' Hardly anyone wanders around saying, "I am a people." It sounds so silly. We used POWER TO THE PEOPLE, but that still did not quite say it. (Forgive me Founding Fathers. )I think what we should be wandering around saying is, "I am a human being first." I may be black, brown, yellow, red, white or anything inbetween, Fill in the blank. I may be pro-choice or anti-abortion. I may be gay. I may be straight. I may be a believer. I may have no belief. I may be young. I may be old. I may be rich, I may be poor. But, whatever, we all have one quality in common: we are all human beings and we know that we come in a wide variety of sizes, shapes, and description. We respect and acknowledge the difference and know that is what makes and keeps us a great nation. That is true democracy. To downplay the diversification card is to play their game: the stupid old game of divide and conquer. No one can divide or 'conquer' us if we play the most powerful card in the game, our basic human core of love and good will, kindness and compassion, peace and joy. We are decent, loving human beings first . All the excess baggage second.
A great many of us, the best of us, of all nationalities, religions, sex or race, economic or social status, are united in the quest for peace. Peace, truth, justice, freedom for all mankind are the words on the banner all of us carry and we fly that banner proudly. In our country...in many countries...many of the bravest military minds are playing the peace card. Numbers, and the numbers are growing, of our very diverse houses of faith...Christian, Muslim, Jew and a thousand others...are flashing the peace signal. Powerful national figures are joining the ranks and speaking out. Sane, rational, thinking human beings everywhere are shouting to the heaveNs, screaming to the sky.
Let those who would use their weapons of war and madness to win the hearts and minds of human beings do their damndest. The best, the brightest, the most loving, the most rational and intelligent minds of all are with us in the cause. Our powers and numbers increase with every passing day. We know that use of force is futile. It only creates a counter force. We've seen with our own eyes the most powerful military might in the world defeated by a handful of armed peasants. In a way it reminds me of our own Revolutionary War: a pitiful force of hungry, cold, poor but dedicated men, beat the most powerful nation in the world at that time: The Mighty British Empire and their mercenary bands.
The senseless death of innocent human beings, by whatever force or means, for whatever reason, intensifies hatred and retaliation. And hatered and retaliation breeds more hatred and retaliation. No one buys democracy, freedom or liberty at gun point. No sane human being worships the god of war. We, who stand for peace, stand on a very high rock, hold the moral high ground and will not budge.
I think of those religious madmen, on our side or theirs, who believe that chaos and destruction will result in right returning. and shudder at their stupidity. They who believe their all-powerful god will haul them off to a safe place while those of us 'left behind' suffer in the mess they created need the help of a good psychiatrist. Sooner, rather than later. It places one who is intelligent and sane in the position of wishing they would be off...the sooner the better...so those of us who practice peaceful pursuits can live with the fruits of our labor of love. One thing I know, I would not wish to spend ten minutes in their company wherever whoever whenever that may be. What a joke it would be if, by their disappearance and demise, those of us 'left behind' could find the peace and justice, truth, compassion and love all human beings crave.
I think of the wonders the zillions of dollars spent on death, destruction, weapons and war could create. I think of lives lost senselessly. I think how these lives and money could be spent bringing good things--life, liberty and the pursuit of happinesss--to all mankind. I think of the love and peace and good will and compassion and understanding that could be shared by reasoning human beings.
Natural catastrophes have always occured. Since the beginning of time, storms, earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, tidal waves and tsunamis, fire and disease have plagued mankind and, again, all those zillions spent on death and destruction, war and weapons, all those lives wasted, could be put to work helping those caught in theaftermath of these disasters. Help to forsee, respond and prevent global catastrophe. I think of those who say we secular humans don't believe in evil and I respond, "Oh yes we do. You....who feed and get rich on war, murder on command, create bedlam, chaos, madness...are the evil ones."
You, who would have all of us bellieve what you believe. Or else. Know that your god is the head honcho god. Or else. Your faith the true faith. Or else. You way of life he only way of life. Or else. You are the destructive force. A death force preaching life. Liars spouting lies as truth. Twisting and turning the truth, teaching madness and stupidity. You are alienated from the human race as surely as your concept of god is alienated from reality. War is not peace. Insanity is not sanity. Nonsense is not reason. Greed and graft are not healthy. Humans are not born in sin. Pandas were not created, full blown, four thousand years ago. The moon is not made of green cheese. The earth is not flat.
What the Democrats have to speak is truth. W are being lead in the wrong direction. We must come together as human beings who love our planet, our country, our children. Of the three, we love the children...the childen of the world...best and insist on leaving them a healthy, happy, world. A better world. A place where living things flourish and peace reigns. We will all work togeher to make it happen and know that we, as human beings, can do it. If we know this and do the things we must everything will fall in place. We can do this. We must do this. Let us form a Coalition of Peace. Now. Peace and Love fellow humans. Peace and love....
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Someone compared Grant's low performance in school to Bush's, both being incompetetent. The only reason that the South could put up such a fight is that it was getting help from European countries, primarily England. The South did not have the factories that the North did. Europe, primarily England, supplied them with munitions that they needed or the South would have folded long before. Without help from foreign countries, the South would have been run over by the North. As for Grant, many considered him a "butcher" because he would decimate the enemy. The North needed the "butcher." Grant knew how to fight. No matter how much he drank, Grant could win major battles, and then the North could start seeing that the South would go down. Historians feel that Lincoln was fortunate to find Grant.
Grant was successful in fighting the civil war when he took over fighting the battles. He was not a great president, but he won where it counted, and he heped to preserve the union. Bush is a loser on all things. I would not compare the two. Can anyone see Bush, at fighting age, killing the enemy to save the U.S.? Of course not. Bush drank himself right through his stint in the Texas National Guard, and we aren't even sure he completed it while drunk. Bush is selling the U.S. to the enemy. Grant fought to save the union. Bush would hole himself up in a bunker until it was all over. I say Grant was more successful than Bush and that he did right by our country, something that I will never be able to say about Bush. -
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I couldn' agree with you more. I am a resident of NYC, and I can tell anyone that Guiliani did nothing but get some good photo-ops. He has been exploiting 9/11 ever since that tragic day, and he wants to use is it to catapult him to higher office, although I doubt that will happen.
All the politicians are looking for phot-ops. They couldn't care less about the people who died, nor do they care about the people who are disabled and will never work again. The media exploit it to no end. There is no level to which some people in this society won't sink.
My sister worked in the area, not far from the Trade Center, and she feared for her life. She did not think she would get out alive. She was unhurt, but I am not going to let the government off the hook on this disaster.
I am quite confident that the Bush administration knew all about it. It would be Bush's way to invade Iraq. He was fixated on Iraq for many reasons. He doesn't care. He is so well protected. It is no coincidence that Bush was in a Florida classroom on September 11, 2001, and not only was he there, but he was in a classroom at the very time of the attacks. They wanted photo-ops. Even though most say Bush looked incompetent, perhaps he wanted to appear shocked because of the atrocity, or he goofed on the photo-ops. There is also the possibility that 9/11 was more successful that the government wanted it to be. Perhaps the government wanted a smaller attack that did not include destroying the Trade Center. It is very American to be with school children, and it stinks to the high heavens that he wasn't in Washington, D.C. -
I am particularly ticked off today, to see that G W RUDY BLOOMBERG and any other republican that wanted to be there parading around at ground zero like they really cared. If they really cared there would have been a few democrats there, but this was just an event for ( them) that was nothing but pure politics plain and simple. GOD BLESS THOSE POOR PEOPLE WHO LOST THEIR LIVES THERE THIS RANT HAS NOTHING TO DO ABOUT THEM. It has only to do with this farce of parading around by the republicans.
Far as I am concerned , I think that G W had a hand in the whole thing happening. If not why did he work so fast to get all the ARABS out of the country right away, if hes not in bed with them. -
WOW Finally a blog where democrats can speak and not be chastised for it. WONDERFUL thank you Betty Jo. I think the reason you are having trouble with advertising your journal is the same reason democrats have a hard time speaking on the aol blogs. You sound so democratic, thank you. THANK YOU THANK YOU I WILL BE BACK TO VISIT YES I WILL.
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