Just wanted to throw this up here...

I will have to get to it later, but I didn't want to let it slip away. This is from booman, a post titled 2006 will be a major disappointment. So will 2008.

But I see NO ONE actually taking a stand. I see NO ONE standing up for DEMOCRATISM.
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And what would that even look like? I can tell what I think it would look like.

For starters, it would mean shaping our policies around Liberal Rhetoric again. In my diary A Memorial For What We Have Lost, I tried to remind people of the REAL values that American stands for--that are ingraved and tattooed onto its very being:

The Common Good.
Equal Opportunity.
The Right to Privacy.
Accountable Government.
Respect Abroad.

It would mean standing up for single-payer healthcare.

It would mean standing up for a SERIOUS increase in the minimum wage.

It would mean standing up for SERIOUSLY higher taxes on corporations and the extremely wealthy, in order to actually SHRINK the income gap in this country.

It would mean standing up for re-regulating all the corrupt, vampirous industries that were deregulated by Reagan and Bush.

It would mean standing up strongly for the separation of church and state, and heaping scorn on those who would tear it down, rather than running in fear of them.

It would mean standing up for SERIOUSLY higher pensions and funding for our military personnel, and for our veterans.

It would mean doing all these things and much more--AND MAKING SURE THAT JOE SIXPACK KNEW WE MEANT IT.