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It's time to abolish voter registration by party.
It's time for a viable alternative to the electoral college.
It's time for "Liberal" to stop being a bad word.
It's time that candidates of any party stopped being ashamed of their intelligence, their education, their experience.
It's time Democratic candidates stood up for something besides "I'm not that guy."
It's time for real campaign reform.
It's time for liberals to get as active as conservatives. In schools, churches, communities, and, yeah, even workplaces.
It's time to put an end to divisive media. (As Jon Stewart told Paul Begala and Tucker Carlson on "Crossfire" last month -- "You're hurting America. Stop hurting America. You're part of their strategy -- your partisan attacks.")
Calling yesterday a failure of the democratic process is the easy way out. NOTHING is going to be easy in the coming years. Buck up.
Yeah, you can have today to mourn and whine and complain. But tomorrow, dammit, we all have to roll out of bed and cobble together the pieces of our dashed hopes and forge something new. Because 40 million other Americans are feeling just as crappy as you are right now. And if all of us give up, then everybody loses.
We've got work to do.
It's time for a viable alternative to the electoral college.
It's time for "Liberal" to stop being a bad word.
It's time that candidates of any party stopped being ashamed of their intelligence, their education, their experience.
It's time Democratic candidates stood up for something besides "I'm not that guy."
It's time for real campaign reform.
It's time for liberals to get as active as conservatives. In schools, churches, communities, and, yeah, even workplaces.
It's time to put an end to divisive media. (As Jon Stewart told Paul Begala and Tucker Carlson on "Crossfire" last month -- "You're hurting America. Stop hurting America. You're part of their strategy -- your partisan attacks.")
Calling yesterday a failure of the democratic process is the easy way out. NOTHING is going to be easy in the coming years. Buck up.
Yeah, you can have today to mourn and whine and complain. But tomorrow, dammit, we all have to roll out of bed and cobble together the pieces of our dashed hopes and forge something new. Because 40 million other Americans are feeling just as crappy as you are right now. And if all of us give up, then everybody loses.
We've got work to do.
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Date: 2004-11-03 02:44 pm (UTC)People see the world through what I call an explanatory framework. You could call it a paradigm, if you expand Thomas Kuhn's definition from science to all human knowledge (see Kuhn, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions). Whatever information comes to people is raw and cannot be understood unless it ties into their framework. That is why most things are interpreted differently by different people. Is keeping on fighting a sign of resolve or thickheadedness? Is barring gay people from marrying a strengthening or a violation of morality?
It's hard to get through an established framework. You really have to break it down completely and force them to rebuild it. And I don't think that's possible with most of those right wingers. They like their framework - it's simple, righteous, and rubber stamped by their churches.