I'm optimistic that the right wing revolution is OVER

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I really truly believe that Bush has singlehandedly destroyed the right wing ideology that has dominated the political scene since Reagan came in. Like everything else he's ever touched, Bush has turned it to shit and shit it shall stay.

Tuesday will mark a new beginning. Sure, we have to watch out for election fraud, but they won't be able to pull it off this time. Tuesday is the beginning of a new wave of politics unlike one ever seen. The conservative way has been proven to not work. Millions are without health care. Millions are starving. Billions around the world have lost respect for what once was a great country. The neo con ideology has destroyed itself and the American people are realizing it.

Like it or not, George W. Bush has created a new generation of liberals that will rise up and take everything the neo cons have taken away BACK. It starts a mere 5 days from now. It continues in 2008. America is ready to try Liberalism again. The Reagan revolution is DEAD. I never thought I'd say this, but thanks George W. Bush!

[JackBeck]

1. I'm optimistic as well.

I'd give even more credit to the Republican Party, with Bush as its helm. This is the party that has courted a solid Evangelical base by promising them to make abortion illegal and take away rights for gays. The Republicans had six years to deliver and didn't. I feel liberalism on the rise, as well. Now, when and if it does become our moment, I just hope we don't fuck it up as bad as the Neo-Cons did.

[Kolesar]

2. yeah, but with their media supremacy and energy industry power....

...they are going to be nasty to deal with. Watch for several close races to be contested for months. Watch for horrible, unfounded attacks against our leaders and new committee chairs in the House. Watch for anthrax in the mail. Blackmailed whistleblowers. Leaked intelligence. Racist agitation. This will not be pretty.

[Search Party]

3. three words...

bring it on

[bryant69]

4. I don't mind a fight

I just want a fairer one.

Bryant
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[Birthmark]

5. Look

With numbers I'm seeing, if the Dems don't capture the House and at least tie in the Senate, then it's time to call "Bullshit!" And it needs to be called in a big way, too.

[SammyWinstonJack]

6. !

:thumbsup:

[KharmaTrain]

7. It Ended In A Parking Lot In Florida

When millions tuned in for days on end of the Schaivo circus and how over the top the right wing and the Repugnican party had gone, it started to turn on some lights. THen add Katrina, Abramoff and then Foley and the bloom was totally off this rose. Overlay this with the beating the middle class has taken economically, the deterioration of the health care system and then overlay that with Iraq. The pendulum hit its apex when booosh blew his political capital by flying back to DC in the middle of the night to sign a special bill designated at one specific person. Many people saw themselves in Michael Schaivo's situation and saw how extreme things had become.

In '04 I commented that out of the loss could arise something bigger and stronger than we would have had if John Kerry had won. The complete implosion of the boooosh regime created the landscape where Democrats could begin the road back and can start to investigate all the corruption of this regime while they're still the beltway.

The best thing to happen in this election has been the Democratic party's ability to regain the middle ground and attract independent and moderate voters. The game now is to consolidate that relationship...siphoning off the socially liberal Repugnicans and turn marginalize the GOOP and Repugnicans for years to come.

This regime will be the most destructive for its party since Hoover...and more. Yes, a new generation of Democrats are on the rise, and I hope we're pleasantly surprised at a large 18-30 turn out next week.

[Kolesar]

9. Very dramatic

You should put that in your journal. I was away in a wilderness, literally, when the Terry Schiavo story occupied the news. I think you are quite right that the Democratic Party has reoccupied the middle ground of the electorate.

[jokerman93]

8. Sounds good

I think you're optimism is courageous. Except one thing comes to mind for me.

It's always been about who's controlling the resources. The current power struggle over control of energy resources is international and extra-national. (And some say it's going to be about clean water next.) The profit driven "free market" value system that's given rise to authoritarian corporatism won't just evaporate in the sunlight with a progressive awakening in America. It won't be over until the billions of people the world over begin to wake up to the all the corporate manipulation and lies that have brought our civilization to this point. It won't be over until we demand a radical shift to a more equitable, sustainable infrastructure for the future. It's going to take a great deal of work to balance the scales now that they've been tipped so far in the direction of global corporatism. The Reagan revolution might be dead and the neocons might be washed up, but until the dynamics of power get redefined for the new realities of this century (i.e. climate change, diminishing resources, environmental destruction, the information explosion, and the "global" economy), there will always be new robber barons with new predatory ideologies ready to take their place.

The human revolution for a sustainable future has yet to begin.

IMNSHO
J