We need a new agenda--one that looks like the original agenda of the Democratic party during FDR's time. We need a new New Deal--a deal that moves working people forward instead of trying to create indentured servitude for the immigrant and revolving door corporate servitude for the citizen. We need a society blind to color, gender, and age but which can see each individual as worthy of respect and dignity. We need an agenda that focuses on how to foster peace and understanding over harsh rhetoric and threats--one that is direct toward good stewardship of the earth and society.
We need a movement where the green that unites is not the green of money. Ah, money is no longer green though. It's technicolor. A brand new shade of green for renewal, rebirth, newness, freshness not the dirty dark green of the old dollar. We need new eyes that look forward and do not look back with longing for a Gilded Age, but with an clear understanding of the lessons of bad decisions and refusal to acknowledge them. We need to pass the torch, because God knows, neither my generation nor our parents could work out a compromise to bring us forward into this millenia.
I teach my children and grandchildren to shape their lives and values toward a new day. That peace is not a lost cause for the world and that in embracing all, we still must clean our own house of vermin and corruption. That open windows let in sunshine. That a smile and an extended hand are worth more the world that all the the money and jobs sunk into making a bigger bang. To defend themselves but not to assume that those unlike you are enemies. That we all die but should go peacefully to our deaths knowing that we did the most we can do for others.
Can we draw from within ourselves the wherewithal to withstand a soul searching? I think that our side needs to search long and hard before jumping to embraces the same-old same-old. Can we purge the corruption (for it exists) and redraw the lines of power so that they are netshaped (a myriad of indiviudal connected points representing one single citizen) or preserve the solid line of the trend corporate trend chart? Do we continue to speak out and not be heard? Do we take power back? Can the older generations do it? If we do not have the will or see the way. Let us pass the baton to those who will, or teach them the original vision of the Democratic party during the New Deal and the Great Society, those of basic decency, fairness, and justice for all. Let's tell them about the great leaders who fostered those ideas and others--FDR, Johnson, Kennedy, Chisolm, Jordan, and many others.
Where do we look for salvation? I look forward. Now does this look like a worthy candidate?
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