Monday, October 17, 2005

Tone, Truth, and the Democratic Party

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Anonymous said...

There is an old jewish saying that every man needs to hold two opposing
thoughts. In one pocket he should hold to the view that the universe was
created just for him, while in the other he must hold the view that all is
vanity.

Truth is always found in the middle of two conflicting ideas of equal merit.
Idealogs are people who have learned only about one half of truth. You have
to have such people in your base, but to win and lead successfully you have
to project a vision that resonates in the middle as being True - true in
regards to the problems of the day. The New Deal rang with truth in the
context of the problems of its day, as did the great society, etc. The
Republican hit with a retorical vision of returing to core values that has
resonated with an aging population and augmented that with some open market
economic concepts that have also rung true in the middle. However, the half
truth of these views is becoming apparent to most people, their apparent and
actual validity is waining.

What the Democratic Party needs is to articulate a new vision that picks up
with the current challenges that we face, a vision for how we preserve a
middle class in a global economy, how we can preserve our environment and
our standard of living, how we can undermine fundamentalizm in the world,
how we can provide health care fairly and economically, and most importantly
how we can achieve a higher quality of life, which is not the same thing as
a bigger GNP, for the majority of our citzens.

The fact is that the Democratic Party has become a reactionary party. It
has no coherent overiding vision. It is a party of many small voices not
one clear vision responsive to the modern issues. When it gets that vision,
everything else will take care of itself, and until it does, nothing will work. Obama is calling for a vision which springs from the Party's
committment to the well being of the average man that resonates within the middle as having truth and relvance for the problems of the day. However, he admits he does not have that vision.

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