time to get to work

well, long past time...

We need a new movement of true political force, truly of the people.

Good citizenship and patriotism does not exclude challenge. This government is ours. We must learn and accept this, and exert our power. Because, "when the people lead, the leaders will have to follow."

We can't be totally emotional, this time. This means that we have to do more than protest. In fact, out right public protest is the last method. First we must educate, we must unite, we must build. The time for youthful expressions of fists and rage has passed. We can no longer afford to scare the people and to rebuke them from our liberal moral high horse. We need them. And we need them to understand that they are needed because they have the power.

-30 hour work weeks and a guaranteed livable wage
-A progressive tax system for wealth redistribution
-Federally funded education, with curricular and administrative reform
-Withdrawal from the WTO and a push for reform in the Global Economy
-Re-evaluation of the "Realist" ideology, especially in its International articulation by the US, as a self-declared "super-power"
-New social policy, including universal health care that works, and social services to eliminate poverty's harshest effects
-Budgetary reform that involves down-sizing "defense" spending

Ultimately, the elimination of class-valued social structure.

These things can be done.

Culture is a collective system that exists only as the people of a society articulate it. We can change our culture. Tradition as identity is to be embraced, but not to the extent that it stifles the dynamic nature of culture.



To any that might read this, keep the faith friends, it is possible; but we have to work, and we have to work together. PEACE