The rising tide.

[pinto]

Ever sit on a beach and watch the tide come in, or go out?

It doesn't happen in fits and starts. Yet, the tide comes in and the tide goes out.

Rarely does long lasting political change happen in fits and starts. There are notable examples to the contrary, yet most have failed, grown and matured or realized the tide turns slowly and surely.

In our own young country, the Revolutionary War that laid the ground work for our Constitution was a preamble. The Constitution itself - incorporating our Bill of Rights -took years to hammer out and come to fruition.

So too, some of our notable national benchmarks. Universal suffrage, Social Security, participation in the UN, civil rights legislation, Medicare, nuclear arms treaties, etc, etc.

We all see that the tide can go out, as well. The erosion of our political standards happens incrementally. Inch by inch. It has been happening these last years. Yet there are signs of change all over. Across the political spectrum.

To bend this simple metaphor to its extent, I think we have to recognize a rising tide. And sail on that one.

We *will* have the day, politically.

:kick:

[opihimoimoi]

1. Truth, Sanity, and Reality will soon Prevail of the GOPs/Bush Insanity

[pinto]

2. Yeah, a reality check - and a time out - for the (R)'s is called for.

:thumbsup:

[illinoisprogressive]

3. Pinto, beautiful musings.

[calteacherguy]

4. Indeed we will. The nation will wake up from history next November and move another step forward

as it has done so many times before.

[CrispyQ]

5. Step 1:

An Amendment to Preclude Corporations from Claiming Bill of Rights Protections

http://reclaimdemocracy.org/political_reform/proposed_constitutional_amendments.html

snip...

SECTION 1. The U.S. Constitution protects only the rights of living human beings.

SECTION 2. Corporations and other institutions granted the privilege to exist shall be subordinate to any and all laws enacted by citizens and their elected governments.

SECTION 3. Corporations and other for-profit institutions are prohibited from attempting to influence the outcome of elections, legislation or government policy through the use of aggregate resources or by rewarding or repaying employees or directors to exert such influence.

SECTION 4. Congress shall have power to implement this article by appropriate legislation.

More on why we need to overturn corporate constitutional privileges (a.k.a., corporate personhood) here: http://reclaimdemocracy.org/personhood/index.html

[Patchuli]

6. K & R!

We have to get in the right frame of mind, the millions of U.S...

[avrdream]

7. Good point. Thanks.

[Perry Logan]

8. The young voters of today are the most Democratic generation in U.S. history.

More Democratic than the youngest voting generations of the New Deal and the 1960s.