Hi Miriam,
Your points are clear and direct and reflect many of my own concerns. I wish that what I write was not seen as depressing, or that it appears I'm advocating for revolution.
Because I believe that the United States of America has been taken over by the American Empire, and that Empire is morphing into an International Corporate Empire is only my view on what is going on around me. Anyone can take a different point of view. Is that being depressed and fatalistic? I thought it was just my opinion.
Carl Jarvis
----- Original Message -----From: Miriam VieniSent: Friday, September 28, 2012 7:57 PMSubject: RE: The Rain on Our Parade: A Letter to My Dismal AlliesNo, I think about some of the lesbian couples whom I helped adopt children
and who really wanted to be married so that both partners would have equal
legal parental rights without jumping through all sorts of hoops and with
Obama's support, and our New York laws, I personally feel that I know
families for whom something has improved. And, if things don't get screwed
up with a Republican sweept, the donut hole in Medicare part D will be
closed by the Affordable Health Care Act and that will be one less thing I
need to worrry about because I take a huge amount of medication. So right
there, off the top of my head, I can tell you that it isn't true that we are
powerless and cut off from decisions made by some far away Gods on Olympus.
Your rhetoric is misleading because it is discouraging. It causes people to
feel that it's OK to give up on the system because the system doesn't live
up to our hopes and ideals. My God, if everyone does that, if all the
disappointed Democrats and swing voters and Progressives stay home because
Obama didn't fulfill their dreams and just went ahead and acted like most
U.S. presidents, we're going to end up with a government more extreme than
the Bush administration which stole the 2000 and 2004 elections, allowed us
to be attacked because it was so focused on Iraq that it paid no attention
to all the loud, clear warnings about an AlQaeda attack, and then used that
attack to begin to install a police state. And the people responsible for
this are waiting in the wings, are Romney advisors, are waiting to take over
so the war with Iran can begin and Social Security can be privatized, not
cut, but privatized, and Medicare and Medicaid can be ended. People will
stay home or vote for the Green Party of the SWP or whatever, and abortion
will be criminalized, birth control made illegal, and laws formulated by
ALEC will rule the land. And all of you revolutionaries can smugly smile and
say that things are good because now we're one step closer to the
revolution.
Miriam
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From: blind-democracy-bounces@octothorp.org
[mailto:blind-democracy-bounces@octothorp.org] On Behalf Of Carl Jarvis
Sent: Friday, September 28, 2012 10:16 PM
To: Blind Democracy Discussion List
Subject: Re: The Rain on Our Parade: A Letter to My Dismal Allies
Bob and Miriam,
We can't level the playing field because it is not our playing field, nor is
it even our game.
We are observers, at best, and at worst we are underwriting the game that is
not our game.
We watch the teams battle back and forth on the field, both sides playing
dirty while screaming that it is only the others who refuse to play by the
rules.
Suddenly they all stop and look at us sitting along the field's edge.
"Come and play, we need you", they shout. And even knowing that we can't
begin to match their skills and their powers, we begin to try deciding which
side would be the better for us to join.
We take a deep breath and step out upon the field. The whistle blows and
the game begins again. Only now we feel that we must do something. But
before we even figure out what it is that we might do, we are crushed and
beaten into the turf. And the two teams go on with their raging battle.
Carl Jarvis
----- Original Message -----
From: Bob Hachey <mailto:bhachey@verizon.net>
To: Blind Democracy Discussion List
<mailto:blind-democracy@octothorp.org>
Sent: Friday, September 28, 2012 2:31 PM
Subject: Re: The Rain on Our Parade: A Letter to My Dismal Allies
Hi Miriam,
I too was a bit surprised by Carl's vehemence upon first read. For a
moment,
I thought that he might have been displaying his sarcastic wit once
again.
But, thinking about what Obama promised and what has come to pass, I
surely
do feel his pain. I was especially disappointed by Obama's economic
appointments and the increased drone strikes.
I must say that this article did make very good points. Voting for
president
this time around will be an incredible conundrum for me. this system
is so
flawed that we need an outside party to take over. But, the
Republicans have
swung so far to the right that a Romney victory, especially if
combined with
a Republican House and senate will cause a lot of pain for a lot of
people
here and abroad.
The points made about the supreme Court might just cause me to fall
back
into voting for the lesser of evils.
AS for the environment, there is no doubt in my mind that our
environment
will fare better under Obama than it would under Romney.
One more point here about the ADA. Ted, you are right on track with
your
views on the ADA. I have just as much respect for civil rights as
anyone,
but, let's face it. Making society accessible for PWD is not cheap
and,
given tight budgets and the shameful accrual of wealth at the very
top, I
can se how we don't have the accessibility we need, especially in
older
cities like Boston with very narrow streets. Making improvements to
accessibility is just one of the many things that we need to do
along with
putting people back to work, fixing infrastructure, restoring former
levels
of teachers, etc. WE know where to find the money. It's at the top,
in
corporate welfare and in our bloated military.
Bob Hachey
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