Letters to the Editor
Retired Military Patriot
Published Letters: 2236 Editor's Choice: 11
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Glenn as you well know, let’s address the system more than the players
[Read the article: Why is the Democratic Congress so unpopular?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]You have had so much success because you expose disease in our system and those who spread it who proclaim to be or actually think they are helping America and the world.
Our Dems have a much tougher job than Repugs when my party is truly inclusive and wants to do so much and address complex problems with no simple solutions. Those who believed that winning a scarce majority in the senate would gain our party the power to dramatically reverse all the Rovian/Cheney/RWA/neocon obscenities can count themselves as just as a simplistic a thinker as the Repugs they rightly condemn. I don’t consider you among those.
I agree with you that this Dem congress could have been more successful. Both parties are required to work within a system that has been built over the last 231 years. Like our present justice system, an adversarial system, even with checks and balances, gets out off kilter from time to time. It has been up to us, American citizens, to right the ship of state when that happens, instead of blaming the people working within the system like the majority of our M$M wants us to do.
Our real problem currently is a system that rewards fear mongering, character assassination, divisiveness, bigotry, misuse of corporate and military power and most of all buying votes with money.
Our Democratic presidential candidates said in the last debate in Iowa that they support federal funding of elections. That might just be political rhetoric, but it is advocating a crucial system change, one that many posters and myself believe lies at the true fix to most of the problems being aired in this post and around the Internet. When money influence is greatly reduced, our representatives can return to truly representing the people with their varied needs and complex problems in a very troubled world.
When we repair systems, we change “woe is me, what the hell can I do” thinking to “here’s what I think.”
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Make the Democratic Party better, I beg you.
[Read the article: Are Democrats really so lame?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Make the system work better, I BEG YOU.
We can rail all we want about my Dems and how much difference it will make. Many of you say none. I say some. I say throwing up our hands in disgust or praying/voting for a third party will not make a difference in the next election.
Robert Franklin you said, “Friend, I encourage you to stop listening to what Dems say and start seeing what they do. When you do that, maybe you'll realize what they're really all about, i.e. raising more and more money so they can win elections.” I said, "When money influence is greatly reduced, our representatives can return to truly representing the people with their varied needs and complex problems in a very troubled world." So I don’t think we disagree about the solution. We believe that the system is at fault more than the players.
I’m not trying to insult your intelligence but when problem solving, you have to do four things: recognize the symptoms and make sure you really understand what the primary problem is; come up with potential ideas on how you are going to fix the problem; implement the change; continually monitor and evaluate whether you have fixed the problem and you can go on to other problems or need to start the whole process again.
I am simply asking us to use our energy to solve problems not rail about them. To make system changes instead of only blaming the system users.
What are other ideas out there besides federal funding of elections and creating a viable third party?
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Forgot one
[Read the article: "We have failed on every promise"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I meant to include universal health care as a major system fix.
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Forgot one
[Read the article: Are Democrats really so lame?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I meant to mention universal health care as another major system fix
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Sorry Forgot one on wrong thread
[Read the article: "We have failed on every promise"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Meant for different Walsh thread.
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Ondelette re: But in the end, what they need to do is to ignore the press and follow their hearts.
[Read the article: The enduring myth of Americans' dislike of investigations]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]You have hit on the real key on which presidential candidate will get elected this time. On another Walsh thread, I said this about the electorate wanting authenticity (honest heart):
“We can plot and strategize and fear we aren’t strong enough to defeat the Repugs all we want, but it is not the way to get what we want. In this election the American people who are not trapped in fear or living in unreality, want one thing more than anything else. They want AUTHENTICITY.
Experience will make a difference because 75% of Americans are tired of an oaf president who screws up everything he touches. Hope of change is strong because it gives the voter hope that things will stop getting worse and money will stop buying our government. When a candidate convinces us that he or she is authentic, really cares about us and will bring about real change, that candidate will win. I grant you proving authenticity will not be easy in today’s political/media world.
The candidate that achieves that deserves to be our president.”
Look what the M$M just did when Michelle Obama said something from the heart about the importance of a father giving priority to his family, something she has said for months, and they turn it into a bloody coliseum sport, take it out of context and accuse her of attacking Hillary so they can dredge up the Clinton sex scandal that we all, excluding RWAs, are sick of.
Glenn should give us a closer look at whether the M$M cares about such silly, damaging coverage by interviewing a few of them on their motivation to keep doing this. I know that ratings and money are behind it, but does it ever bother them enough to want to stop? I don’t see how we can judge the authenticity of a candidate if the media has none.
Thanks for dropping by Bebop-o. I’ve tried to hold down the humanity fort in your absence, but we need your perspective once nature has sufficiently refreshed you.
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@Pumpkinator, Huh?
[Read the article: The enduring myth of Americans' dislike of investigations]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]And you're defending pundits who present no polls or facts. Some defense