Tuesday, March 12, 2013

The only way Congress is going to break out of it's deadlock is for Democrats to change the national dialogue.

The Democrats are NOT going to like this, but, they abandoned their base in the Red State 'areas' in the country and as a result the extremists in the GOP have developed a strong hold on the electorate and the political dialogue in these districts.

Ryan's budget is nonsense and everyone knows it. But, the problem is that he gets away with it politically. The RNC Chairman has a small donor base concentrated in ideology. The handwriting is on the wall, but, if the Democrats want to stop the loggerheads in the Congress among Republicans they have to put candidates in districts of the Republican leadership in the Congress.

The First District in Wisconsin needs a Democratic candidate willing to take on Ryan and win. It is the only WAY the political dialogue will change. The extremist political dialogue has to change within the electorate. Ryan won because he was running for Vice President. I stated that when he was nominated with Romney.

Ryan is a bit of AN Icon to the Super-rich in the GOP base. So, they will dump a lot of money into his candidacy, but, it was buoyed by the national ticket IN 2012. Now, if others believe that the way I do, that means Ryan is vulnerable. We have witnessed him at town hall meetings and know he is dogmatic and refuses OR CAN'T relate to people that speak up. It is those tapes a Democratic candidate has to listen to and find the voice of those Ryan ignores. It is important. If the dialogue of those that oppose him can actually be heard on the campaign trail it will change and the Democrats will begin to build their base back again.

That will be true throughout the Republican leadership. They need to have serious opposition with the desire to win. The Democrats will win. If not in 2014 then in 2016. It will happen, but, the base needs to be re-established and the extremism seen for what it is. The country is in the balance. If anyone believes the Republicans are just another name for the Plutocrats then they will understand the danger that lies ahead for the country.

I'll look at Ryan's budget, but, I promised to read the military budget, too. I think Secretary Hagel is the best man right now to review the military budget. He will put the soldier first and to that end his focus will bring spending back into alignment to where it needs to be while removing hideous technology such as the F35. 

But, all this needs to be a part of DISTRICT dialogues to bring about awareness. Americans will take up the challenge to understand their government if they are given the chance. They have time consuming lives these days. It is difficult for them to set aside time to study government spending. In that is the reality of where the Paul Ryan Budget lives. If is sounds right then it is right regardless of the reality otherwise.

The Republicans are dragging out the dialogue on MONEY for the very reason they have nothing else. The Democrats have to push for movement on Immigration reform (the clock is running for our Dreamers) and on gun control. The MONEY problems of the country are not all that, but, it is all the Republicans want to dialogue about. 

Why hasn't Ryan taken a strong position on Immigration Reform? What is he afraid of? So long as Republicans dictate the political dialogue surrounding money they keep their extremist funding. If they lose that funding they will be floundering in the elections, too.

There is plenty of moral dialogue lost because of extremist money. It is time to reclaim it and make the Democrats the party with answers.

We know what the gun problem is. Mark Kelly and Former Congresswoman Giffords have dedicated their lives to this issue. We know what is ahead of us.

We know what the economic problem is. President Obama has been pushing back against it for the past four years. We can't lose ground on this.

We know what the banking problem is. Senator Warren is a testament to that reality.

We know what the immigration problem is. We need to move forward to change the problem into an asset. President Obama started that with an Executive Order.

We know we have a national debt. We know how to address it and the untimely idea of cutting spending in the face of success for four years. We know we have to address these issues and pass them on to our children.

We know how to privatize government when the time is right and it is not a threat to the pride in our country or the sovereignty of our nation. We have witnessed privatization in the past that works for both the country and the people. Our local economies are leading the way.

We know that victimizing women takes away their rights and does not empower them. Women are still trailing in their achievements in the USA. If we can't provide that path to success for women in this country it will be a disgrace.

We know what a healthy nation looks like. We know obesity victimizes our youngest people and sends them into disease processes that will shorten their lives. 

We know what education looks like and our students are achieving, but, this is the first generation that graduated into unemployment. How do we change that paradigm? And it has to be how and not maybe when. We have to build sustainable economies and the sustainable energies to power it. The more we postpone building the country we need the longer there will be poverty and the increase in it. The only way to fight poverty is to provide opportunity. Until the country has turned the corner on that reality, there is no looking back to building a new world view. The old world view nearly destroyed us. We can't' have that back.

We know what morality is and it is far more than church going and quoting our spiritual books. Morality is about security for our people and knowing they have purpose in their lives.

We know the problems we face as a nation. We know the solutions. We can't let extremist views mar what we know is the truth and the way forward.