there really is reason to hope and to believe.
We will march on until our momentum turns our country towards peace, prosperity, human rights and honor.
DU has become a platform for focusing the efforts of Dems, and that is the sort of thing that is badly needed right now -- in the present -- just days before the election of 2006! There are other voices, many of them, that are also speaking the truth and that truth is resonating in the hearts and heads of regular Americans, the kind who don't much like to think or care about politics.
I believe we all know that by now even those folks have become very worried by all the blatant misdeeds of this criminal administration and that they are chagrined (to put it mildly) at the direction the GOP "leadership" has taken our once-decent nation. I feel they're just waiting for some substantial leadership (from "our side") to step up and make the case clearly and courageously, so they can form up behind and overpower the current powers-that-be.
We Dems do have such leadership, but the need right now for coherence and a strong, clear, and simple voice to pull it all together has never been greater.
It's happening, is what I see. And I can't help but remember an article by Ernest Partridge that I read back in February of this year, predicting so many of the things that are happening RIGHT NOW (even as he noted the hazards of making predictions about politics).
I went back to read it this morning (had it bookmarked), and here's a link to it, for those who want to see just how perfectly one perceptive progressive called it eight months ago.
http://onlinejournal.com/artman/publish/article_529.shtmlIt's in the
Online Journal's Reclaiming America section, and is titled "Perception Is Reality." A bit of a long read but very well organized and easy to get through. Grows more encouraging with every paragraph as you read, too -- without leaning on that biggie, HOPE, too much but instead citing the solid reasons and FACTS that bolster the case for optimism.
You know how sometimes you read something that dares to anticipate where events could take us six months hence, and then when that time arrives you recall what you read and realize how accurate it was? That's how I feel about this article!
Just thought I'd share it in this thread since it seemed to fit so well with the topic and article cited here.
Because the article is pretty extensive, I had some difficulty pulling out a paragraph or two that summarizese it, but chose these two from the middle to give you an idea of its content.
So, is an upheaval looming ahead for the United States? Not necessarily. For history also teaches us that democracies can descend slowly, by small increments, into despotism. As William O. Douglas put it: “As nightfall does not come at once, neither does oppression. In both instances, there's a twilight where everything remains seemingly unchanged.”
Which is our future? A bang, or a whimper? Or perhaps a renaissance? We don’t know. But the answer, to no small degree, is in the hands of us, of "we the people."
I honestly believe the renaissance is possible and may even be likely, given developments of the last few months which don't bode well for the Repukes.
Let's take this baby on home! It's doable, and we the people can do it!
One thing I don't want is to wake up after election day 2006 and see that the R's have held their ground -- then regret that I didn't do MORE to fight for that renaissance.
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