Reply #18: We need to offer a vision of hope. [View All]

[gulliver]

Umberto Eco wrote in The Name of the Rose, "The faith a movement proclaims doesn't count; what counts is the hope it offers." We need to offer real hope. Kerry's plans, Dem plans, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. Plans come after you have the peoples' attention. For that, you need hope.

Fear is another thing we should feel free to cut loose on. Mehlman is already at it innoculating his party against the fear that the war is a catastrophe. He is trying to sell that fear as a Democratic concoction. But it is a real, justified fear, and no one created it but Bush. The people need to sweat and they deserve to be given the awful truth about Bush's Folly.

Real fear. Real hope. It has to be obvious. Plans, as such, don't work.