I come to the table with a leftist background as well.
You're confused. I'm more in the "Patriot" mold, independent/libertarian, get gov't and gov't/business combines off our backs. We need freedom from the radicals in the WH who are building a larger, more dangerous all-powerful central gov't than we've ever seen, in secret deals with backroom buddies. Such deals violate public responsibilities of gov't office, and are the road to classic fascism. There's an endless list, from Cheney's energy and Afghan pipeline deals, Bush Sr. Carlyle contracts, bin Laden family deals etc.
What you accurately describe is a minefield but you get out of a minefield one mine at a time, not by going back to Smoot-Hawley protectionism or anti-immigration
Wait just a minute here - I'm not "anti-immigration". There's a lot of brain-damage out there in the media, confusing "immigration" and "illegal immigration". It's like the difference between "bank" and "bank robbery".
It's the illegal crap that causes damage to our economy and culture by encouraging contempt for the law, and saddling average Americans with wage competition by illegals who often live in absolute servitude, sucking on the gov't teat for medical care. It is clear that corporations such as Wal-Mart encourage both illegal immigrants (not just Mexican, btw) and saddling the taxpayer even with their legal employees' medical expenses.
This simply takes alert political leadership to shame these companies and people to respect America and Americans. No new laws are needed, sir.
democrats need a progressive alternative to bush that involves homeland defense
Absolutely. Bush has promoted the opposite of an American-oriented policy in nearly every case. What's needed is to beef up American borders - instead of broadcasting amnesty plans pandering to special voting blocks, (b) stop being drunk with power, stop the profiteering practice of spreading troops and warfare around the world without cause and without planning, causing worldwide disrespect and increased danger to Americans, (c)internationalize these efforts, rather than the Wolfowitz/Rumsfeld/Feith hostility.
Yes regulate when necessary and arrest the crooks. But dont go back to Jimmy Carter
Carter was an honest but ineffective micro manager who didn't know what hit him. He was beat by the same Reagan inside "fixers" in office today, including Rove, part of Nixon's dirty tricks team. We'll see if Dean can militate a large enough group to throw them out. Don't expect Dean to be a micromanaging "nice guy" like Carter.
I don't think Hillary's in the cards.
Re: the Global Village, if you heard Bill on stage with Dole last October, he's got the patois down pat, able to articulate inspiring messages on the world getting along together ... But it's the real results that count. A real statesman will keep the inspiration, and not lose freedoms for the average American. Bill had failures, but Bush failures are orders of magnitude greater. |
