Elephant Safari

WE CONVENE IN FORT WORTH, THEN CAVE IN FORT WASHINGTON

Democrats will meet next week in Ft Worth to rubberize some resolutions and a State platform. I am a delegate.

The effort will replicate itself over at the state reptile headquarters, date unknown, in a more severe and anti-democratic vein.

Somewhere soon the Greens will meet to actually deal with issues in more direct language than is allowed at the major conventions. Greens are actually acting in ways Dems should be, but they are too timid.

We need the Greens to win a big share of offices so that Dems will be jolted into action. What if Greens won ten Senate seats and forced Republicans to face opposition? What if Democrats had to work with a coalition in order to BEAT STUPID BILLS DOWN AND WRITE SENSIBLE LEGISLATION FOR A CHANGE?

Well, that should happen, but it won't. The two party system has Microsofted its way into the monopolistic operating system which is too lazy to compete, so it just makes life impossible for other party-dot-coms to vie.

My idea of a democracy is where parties can come up and go down as their relevence fluctuates. As popular new parties gain a foothold, the Big Two have to pay attention to stay Big.

Making it impossible to get on the ballot is the bullies' way of not having to face real reform or accountability. It is lazy and unethical.

But what was I thinking? These are politicians in control, why would honest competition be an option?

Because it is the statesmanly thing to do, to let the Greens and others contribute to the process that we must rely on to exist in a sustainable concept of human society.

Devolution is the product of lack of effort. Evolution is to stay viable, accountable, adaptive.

Democrats cannot win by pretending that Reptiles are warm-blooded thinkers. We need the Greens to energize our brain cells, to call us, as well as the Red-Bait, into account.

-30-bobby