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On Steps Taken Back pt. 2

I had a conversation with a woman earlier this week who feels that the democrats and republicans are basically the same party. I felt that way too until bush. In retrospect Clinton was actually a pretty good president, the most effective in my lifetime, unless you consider Reagan's success at making workers less secure and corporations stronger a good thing. I personally don't. She also said that the democrats won't speak the truth because, like the republicans, they are afraid of losing money and power. I disagreed with her at the time on several points, but find myself agreeing with her on this point, at least in part. I hear individual democrats making smart, precise, and thoughtful critiques fairly often. At the same time I feel they lack the seemingly unified voice of the political right. I also think that for too long the dems have rolled over for bush, instead of making principled stands because they were afraid of the political backlash. Bush has been politically vulnerable for a while now, but they still seem incapable of all making the same stand at the same time.

there have been suggestions that the democrats need their own version of the contract with America promoted by it's own group of young upstarts. I'm ok with that, but what I think they need even more is to start speaking the truth like they don't care if they are re-elected. They need to start speaking as if telling the truth means more than keeping their jobs, every last one of them. Some actually might lose their jobs in the short term, but the party would grow in the long term. They also need to speak the same truth from a common platform, a shared paradigm. At the heart of any platform should be the promise to restore the transparency of the government and to keep us safe without false wars and while maintaining our rights and principles.

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To save on all of the effort I'll just say that part 3 was to be about the why of my blogging and decisions around that but I'll cut to the chase and just say that instead of writing just about politics and the news that makes me cry myself to sleep I'm going to start writing on the topics I usually write in other places, like comics, music, art, dance, djing, biting, mammals, queens, sexual frustration, how much I can fit in my mouth at once, the library card numbers that I remember from six years ago, the elasticity of smoke, queens, ny, honeyforms, music, and cartoons. Maybe. And I'm also going to try to remember to use the shift key.

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