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We have no leadership. I know some don’t believe that we need leadership, but I totally disagree. That doesn’t even make sense to me. We need leadership now more than ever.
The libertarians have Ron Paul. Considering Paul’s stance on imperial wars of recreation, and the fact that the pod people seem to turn back into regular human Democrats, to at least some extent, when a Republican is in office, I have a hard time not thinking that Paul would be much better than Obama.
But, Jesus Christ.
I really don’t want to vote for Ron Paul.
Most of our potential leaders seem scared to call a spade a spade and admit that the DLC has massively corrupted the party. I don’t think they can even admit it to themselves. And that’s, honestly, terrifying. I see it not only in otherwise good guys like Kucinich and Sanders, but in many genuine lefties in local politic groups. Overall, party loyalty still reigns supreme, and people do incredible mental gymnastics to justify it.
I know a lot (most?) of y’all are right here with me. I’m mostly just venting, I guess.
Hope. Change. Not.
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Hey Athena,
I get it. Venting is cool. Necessary. Healthy.
Ya want my #? You can call up and scream obscenities at me.
Me, I am sick of pro politicos. Just sayin’.
When leaders are no place to be seen or found during times of great upheaval, it becomes necessary for people to look in the mirror for the leaders.
We need this kind of venting. LEADERSHIP IS A CRITICAL ISSUE RIGHT NOW. The Left is starving for real leadership. Think about the fact that the one lefty most look up to, Chomsky, is not only very old, but is an academic. There is something inherently wrong with a movement led by an academic. Part of our problem is that many of our potential leaders get jobs with corporate funded NGOs, and groom themselves accordingly. Also, most of our potential leaders aspire to nothing more than being gadflies. I believe that Nader, Krugman and Kucinich, for example, have been explicit about this. Some of our strongest leaders right now are women, such as Medea Benjamin, Cynthia McKinney and Cindy Sheehan, but they don’t seem to be respected.
Here’s an excerpt from “The American President” about leadership – and it is more applicable now than it was in 1995…
http://youtu.be/YsW_P9KQtuU
We should be pushing a Cynthia McKinney/Cindy Sheehan ticket for 2012.