This election seems to have less to do with the names actually on the ballot and the issues facing us and more about voters expressing a deep sense of frustration with politics and insecurity with the state of the world. Facts and truth are no match for the purity of political polemics in this year’s election cycle. The diatribes, mostly directed against our President, are flying. Polemics aside, the facts are hard to ignore. In 2009, we were on the brink of a global economic meltdown. We were shedding jobs and the stock market had collapsed. Today, unemployment is down. The Stock Market is up. People who went without health insurance are getting it. Osama Bin Ladn is dead. We don’t have soldiers dying daily in the Middle East. Civil rights in our diverse society are more respected. A growing bi-partisan coalition of business leaders and activists has come together to combat climate change. Great challenges confront us, as they always do. The post 9/11 world is unsettled. The forces of barbarous religious radicalism, global pandemic disease, climate change, continuous war and increasing economic inequality ravage our collective psyche. Regressive, Tea Party Republicans funded by billionaire oligarchs have hijacked the national political dialogue. The real effort is to so frustrate the electorate that most stay home in disgust, unable to distinguish fact from fantastical. A cohesive forward thinking policy agenda and a message that resonate with hard-pressed working Americans would go along way to communicating the values of the Democratic Party. Education, Innovation, Infrastructure and Reform is our core policy agenda. We stand for Opportunity, Freedom and Strength. When attacked as a liberal John F. Kennedy famously said “If by a Liberal they mean someone who looks ahead and not behind, someone who welcomes new ideas without rigid reactions, someone who cares about the welfare of the people-their health, their housing, their schools, their jobs, their civil rights and their civil liberties-someone who believes we can break through the stalemate and suspicions that grip us in our policies abroad, if that is what they mean by a Liberal, then Im proud to say Im a Liberal.” The choices in this election are clear. If you favor more economic opportunity, a safer, healthier environment, greater inclusion and a stronger nation, vote Democratic. If you believe in the policies of the past, state and federal, that brought our state and the nation to the brink of bankruptcy, plunged us into endless war, and ignored the challenges we must face together, then by all means, vote for the right-wing Republicans. But be forewarned. The Republicans run for office saying government doesn’t work and when they get elected, they prove it.
Posted on: Sun, 26 Oct 2014 16:22:01 +0000
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