Kucinich- Maybe someday? [View All]

[diamondsoul]

This statement always gets me- "Maybe someday American people will wake up enough and be ready for a President Kucinich..."- always with that wistful quality, wistful and WISHful.

So that made me think about wishes, and what most people do with them if they're really important. Really important wishes don't sit languishing for "someday". The people doing the wishing carry them around in their hearts and thoughts every minute of every day. They act to move toward that wish, to hopefully make it reality. They think about how to achieve that wish, and then they carry out whatever idea might get them there. It takes work to make a wish reality. Lots and lots of hard work, sometimes even difficult leaps of faith.

I've been reading here a lot today while fighting with Earthlink over whether I could actually get into my e-mail and get some work done. Much of what I've read made me weep openly. People seem to think the evil of the current administration requires some sort of Behemoth power to eradicate it. That we need another "Slick Willie" to get rid of Prince George. Do we really want another sleazy centrist making compromises with what this administration has done to us? (Not a reference to any of the current candidates, just a reference to Clinton, whom I despise, Democrat or not.) Because it seems as if that's what most of us are trying to do. Elect the middle of the road guy who won't take a stand and just tell it like it is.

The ones who try to do that the hardest are painted with a sweeping black stroke- "Unelectable!", and the rest play to win as one poster said recently. It's not a game anymore, and I'm no longer "playing" with anyones lives or future. We deserve better than "playing" at taking this country back, "playing" at making real changes, "playing" at diplomacy and declarations of peace while we create havoc with our war complex.

What amazes me is how the word "idealist" is used to denigrate people all over the place. It's as if some of us think it isn't possible to be an intelligent, rational idealist, that the very definition is insanity and extremism. A lot of rot. The root word of Progressive is Progress, people, and I don't see any now, nor do I see any coming in the future unless we force it.

So how do you force Progress? In a country this big, with this many people, you rise up and take over. You reclaim the elections process by working together, going after those who would hand it over to the Thugs trying to destroy it, by being vigilant over what's happening with these changes they keep trying to make and fighting them, in numbers. Strength, might, victory comes from working together to make this country move forward, to drag it out of the sinking spiral it's in today.

You fight in large enough numbers that they can't possibly stop you all to make sure your vote is counted and counted accurately. After that you cast that vote. First in the Primaries. Those elections exist so we the people can tell our respective parties WHICH candidate we WANT in the White House next. It isn't about who can defeat Bush right now, it's about what YOU want. So what do you want? I've asked that question of people before and nobody seems to want to answer it. Are we all so riddled with fear and self-doubt we can't bring ourselves to speak of what we want anymore, or do we just not know?

I have to ask, if you all want change so badly, real definite changes, a move to making the United States what we want it to be-
Who will step forward and fight for that?(Dennis Kucinich)
When will you fight for it?(right now, and every day for decades) Maybe someday?(today, tomorow, and yes, even someday)

My friends, "someday" never, ever arrives. Someday is always someday, no matter how many days go by, and it never ever comes. People say maybe in 2008 or 2012. What if he's dead. What if there isn't another Dennis Kucinich for 30 more years? What if Bush carries on as he has been, even if someone else is elected, raping, pillaging and destroying human life until there's nothing left of this country?

What if being "realistic" or "pragmatic" or "compromising" allows that filth to walk free and continue the destruction of our country from within? What if our world has come to an end in 2012? What will you say about someday then?

Nothing, that's what. And the saddest thing is we'll never know what it would have been like to elect Dennis Kucinich and watch him change the world because we were too scared, or too "pragmatic", to try.

I'm tired of waiting for "someday", and I want something MORE than just getting Bush out for my children, and for all of you. I want progress, and change, and decent lives. I want President Kucinich, not someday but NOW.