By Lee Gottlieb |
THE GREENS The election wars are over and, presumably, the Republican Party has won. The party and the privileged people of wealth it represents have nothing but contempt for those of us who must labor to exist. They are cruel and persistent people who will continue to chip away at the safety nets FDR and his "New Deal" created to protect us from their abuses. It's obvious they conduct class warfare against us From what I read, the Democrats, the Greens, and all the so-called "independent progressives and liberals" now ponder the direction to take for the 2006 and 2008 elections. Why the indecisiveness? The path that must be taken should be clear to all. The Democrat Party, as many of us remember it is long dead, a mere shell of what it was once. Any attempt to reinvigorate it would be a total waste of effort and money, for it is filled with men lacking the ideals and convictions necessary to sway voters and win elections: typical professional politicians who are nothing more than opportunists looking out for their own welfare. It leaves only the Green Party with the organization and potential to rally the forces necessary to beat the Republicans and those they represent. Shouldn't the goal of the Greens be to give the American masses strong reasons for voting Green? Shouldn't the party publicly acknowledge that as the Republicans have been openly waging class warfare, it will fight the war on behalf of common Americans and drive Republicans and their greedy masters from the halls of Government? Shouldn't it declare it is the party concerned with the dignity of human life; the party committed to providing all citizens free education from kindergarten through college giving each the opportunity to become all he or she can become; the party committed to providing reasonably priced healthcare for all citizens; the party committed to stop the deterioration, destruction, and pollution of the planet's natural resources that nourish our lives; the party committed to eliminating |
poverty, discrimination, and injustice within the nation? Shouldn't it declare it is the party of common Americans: of citizens who must unfairly struggle to provide sustenance for their families; of citizens who, because their skins are not white, have been traditionally oppressed and mistreated; of female citizens as well as male citizens; of citizens who choose life-styles with which they are comfortable—even though different than most other citizens; of citizens whose religions are different than the mainstream religions of the republic; of citizens who understand the only way to eliminate small groups from grasping the nation's economic and political power is for all to participate in fulfilling the administrative obligations and responsibilities inherent in living in a collective society? The dilemma we common Americans face today is unique, never before faced by an Earth society: the cohesiveness and wefare of our nation is being subverted by our very own privileged classes who now possess wealth and power greater than any ancient monarch, and who now arrogantly strive for empire and rule of planet Earth. Their strategy has included bombing the sources of nourishment and employment from target countries and killing uncounted thousands of adult civilians. This has made it easier to indoctrinate the young generations with the benefits of capitalism and insert "free enterprise" into the local culture. The strategy has been successful in South Korea, Vietnam, Bosnia, and is now being utilized in Iraq. But such action is a crime against humanity, as heinous as the Nazi assault on Europe's Jewish population. The only reason common Americans haven't risen up in anger and punished their leaders is the American press has long since abandoned its function of enlightening the people to the truth and the people are ignorant of the truth. The core problem that common Americans must first acknowledge—and then solve—is that it's the American System itself that nourishes this arrogance by allowing men to accumulate such unhealthy amounts of wealth and power. |