How far has Lincoln’s party fallen.  From the once famous drive to preserve the Union,  the party is now the divider of its countrymen.  So many Republican’s today derive status from insistence on one religion, one sexual orientation, and one race.  The Unity of the Nation, liberty for all is now the Democratic capstone. Liberty for all, freedom of religion as it once was for those tired of intolerance in 1776.

“With malice towards none and charity toward all”, sounds pretty Barack, but comes from those first Republican lips – Abraham Lincoln. The Lincolnian party would be nice to see again. Rather we see Republicans who want to make a slave of us all.  For leadership they shout loudly in anger. For fiscal policy they are the implicit cause of the economic crisis, for peaceful tranquility the demand the unsound and unchecked war. It is as if the Republican leaning backward direction has slowed them to a lost mentality. Gone are their once great causes. What are the causes Republicans should confront in current times? A critical rethink of high level Capitalism, the nature of Governance, and the causless immensity of the military complex.

Change was not enough in the election for Obama. It is not enough because the familiar rude Republican mantle, unthinking and prejudiced has gone louder with the Rush Limbaugh’s and Glen Becks of the media. For civilization to advance on a course first set in 1776, when liberty and freedom were principle, it is almost fact that for modern America to survive it is time to consider the campaign for a Republican-Free America.

We have been pushed so far to the Right, there is nothing Left.

November 21, 2008 –

Who are we now? Able to spend 500 million to elect a president ?  Able to use the Internet to out-fox immediate fear. Yet will we be able to take on the lame-duck economy and the thousand misfortunes we are heir to? One hopes Barack will channel the Internet as a means of running the democracy. Of the many hopes, let’s hope we can help.

I had hoped for an interregnum strategy of double impeachment,  so the Pelosi would be shaking hands where George Bush would not. We count up to the inauguration. My hope now is to obtain the defining moment and a greater hope that the apparently unimpeachable Cheney-Bush White House will not further burden the nation. At best, two steps forward, one step backward.

Let’s hope to travel the world with a little more pride. Hope we can deeply atone for the Bush-in-our-name failure. Hope to bring war profiteers to justice and reverse this no-bid war in Iraq. Hope for a new solid Internet-based voting system. Hope for government with representation. Direct representation. Or just governance by contract, not taxation. Can one hope to remove personal income tax altogether (as it was in the 1800’s) and simply have competetive contracts for governing services.  And the real how, that education will be directly accountable  and personally chosen rather than public and mandatory.

29 days left on the old Bush clock. Halloween approaches. The all-seeing always-linking Andrew Sullivan spots an Obaman act of goodness as Autumnal days get darker.

Hyper-Halloween heats up with both parties now. The fear meter tips more to the right as the Republicans haunt the American imagination with the “white flag”, “terrorists pal” and the other ilk of character assassination pressed by, I will call it, “Neandrican” leadership.

The Bush clock ticks and the Neandrican “October Surprise” is being wound up tighetr than a Jack-in-the-box. Ready to pop out for capture is Bin Laden previewed on 60 minutes. Cromagnocrats stay frosty.  Be advised.

The skilled Cromagnocrat can seize the winning strategy against Al Qaeda, whereas the Neandrican is unable to let go. Monkeys are caught when they reach into an anchored gourd filled with shiny coins. When the hunter charges, the animal will not unclench his fist to run away. “Must surge now.”

The trick or treat election is on everyone’s mind. Rolling Stone opens the bag on Make-Believe Maverick and brother Matt Taibbi’s Mad Dog Palin.

Stirring the pot of hatred, the polarizing Republican rally to kill, baby kill. I am now hearing people use “Alaska!” as an expletive, as in “Alaska! don’t make me come over there.”, or “Alaska! Whose calling me now?”

 Luis Sinco’s video document about an iconic marine, James Miller, tells his personal battle story. How to talk to returning troops? Private Miller tels us not to buy a returning soldier a patriotic beer, but to ask how they are doing. Are you all right?

The force of national fear is in the air, but what is the moral response to American victimization? To paraphrase Arianna Huffington:

A great leader is there to inspire fearlessness in a nation. Look at FDR. He said in his first innaugural, “The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.” This is incredibly profound. With these words, he helped Americans in every walk of life who feared the future of the Great Depression and the horrific years of the Second World War. With his words, we got through it.

This is the opposite of what this administration, what this president has done. They have decided instead, to spread the disease of fear. And with fear, to divide us, to make us afraid, to cause us to doubt ourselves when we need to question adminstration actions. There message is - be very afraid – because the administration has the answers, trust us because you don’t know. If you begin to disagree, then their chosen press agents step in to say “shut up, turn off the mic” and instill fear against you for being un-American.

Democrats, when you are intimidated and hear “you want to cut and run”. You say, “Our military has achieved victory in Iraq, why do you not want this to end?” 

The list of hear and say responses for fearful Democrats was tightened up on Bill Maher’s telecast Nov 3 2006. To answer the question,  one reason the administration does not yet want this war to end is that the billions of dollars of budget allocations to their friend’s companiees to rebuild Iraq are not quite exhausted. But as we read Krugman’s report of Bechtel Corporation’s cut and run, and the closure of the Iraq Reconstruction Oversight office you have to ask every Republican you meet, why do you not want this to end?”

As the nationally mandated disease of fear spreads, it has one enormous consequence to our nation. The social discourse, what you say at parties, at work or at school is highly measured. You fear lest you are “misunderstood”, or perhaps worse understood. The great dividing message of the RNC polarizes all social events. So nothing meaningful can be debated without a party tag implied. If you are not on the RNC wavelength, you are marked and branded.  Should you say something that deviates from RNC interests, their favorite “shut-up” journalists are ready to pounce.