A Big Gray Rainbow

[SoCalDem]

Gray is where things get done. Gray is where people congregate to hammer out difficult problems from charcoal gray to silver-wolf gray..

This black & white world Mr Bush has ushered in , is dangerous and chaotic.

There is no more wiggle room for ideas. Ideas are either great or horrible, heavenly or satanic, intelligent or moronic.

Diplomacy lives in the shadowy gray areas.

Our military lives in the bright blood red and glistening phosphorescent white .

Our congress lives in sound-the-alert vermillion-tinged hysterical rhetoric, balanced on the other side by ho-hum-indifferent blah-blah-blah beige..interrupted occasionally by a burst of twist-the-knife-gently aubergine.

Our media is fixated on commentary and news that range the spectrum too.. Heart of darkness Black on one side..to Pure as the driven snow White..with NOTHING in-between.

Every issue has its particular political color, and no mid-spectrum color is allowed these days.

There is either "we're-all-gonna-die-in-10 years" global warming, or "the-warmer-weather-will-boost tourism" philosophy.

There is either runaway illegal immigration or a more-the-merrier philosophy.

Either abortion is the vilest crime on the planet or it's a sacrament.

Men are either rapists or saints.

Women are sainted mothers or whores.

Everyone should have a private arsenal, or no one should have a gun.

Children should have a desktop bible on every classroom desk, or accept Satan as their personal saviour.

Corporations are the benevolent providers-of-jobs, or they are iniquity incarnate.

People are being forced to choose "sides" in every facet of their lives. ...down to the smallest detail.

We now question everything , its country of origin, and its manufacturer's politics/political donation history.

We worry about our children's teacher's religious proclivities.

In seven and a half years, the colors have brightened, but nothing positive has happened. We are being bombarbed by the bright and shiny of the brilliant array of colors, when all we really need is some calming alabaster gray. The gray warmth of quiet, deliberate diplomacy and clear thought.

While some long for the dazzling colorful candidate who will sweep us off our collective feet, I am hoping for a solid, thoughtful, intelligent "gray" candidate who can gently, but sternly pull us all back from the abyss.

[applegrove]

1. "This black & white world Mr Bush has ushered in , is dangerous and chaotic"

says it all. Reptilian brains gives you the government you got.

You have to get rid of them in order to go back to adult thinking and the shades of grey.

[SoCalDem]

2. To get "rid" of them, we must shame them into the darkness, never to re-emerge

a slap on the wrist and a time-out only encourages them to try harder next time.. and there WILL always be a next time, until they are ruined. We never ruin them.. we just chastise them and send them away from the table.. They hunker down in their rooms, plotting their strategy for their triumphant revenge.

[applegrove]

3. I think that once the Dems get into office and "look under the carpet" - it will all come out

and there will be nowhere for the Cheneys to hide. Keep up the good fight till that day.