Thinking again about campaigning and ways to avoid going hat in hand to 
millionaires and billionaires. Also thinking about 1) the ambivalence 
(at best) many people have about real change. A lot of people are 
worried about what they MAY need to give up and 2) those of us who want 
real change but don't see a vigorous enough attempt to deal with the 
things coming down the pike directly towards us!
 Allow me to ask the first set of people (you know who you are) this question: can you
 tell that, whether we want them to or not, things (with the climate 
first and last) will change, yea are changing before our very eyes? If 
you can't see it, refuse to acknowledge it or are preparing to be 
'raptured' and, thus, don't care--then I ain't talking to you! Stick 
your heads back into the sand (or back up your hinder end) and stay 
there. But know this: having your heads stuck up your other end does put
 you in the most convenient position to kiss your a** goodbye, as the 
old poster from the 70s instructed!
 To those who CAN tell and do 
know, let me ask you this: are you ready to do what needs doing NOW or 
will you palm it off on your children and/or grandkids? If you're a 
'palmer', you also have no business as a free citizen of a democracy but
 need to go somewhere which will welcome docile subjects, because that's
 what you really are!
 For those ready to act but still ambivalent: 
you want to do right by posterity, right? You say that's the most 
important thing to you? Well, pardners, now's the time to step up to the
 plate and walk the walk: support what looks most likely to ensure that 
posterity the best type of life we can leave them--and don't be sloppy 
about doing your 'homework' in checking that out!
 Last but possibly 
most important, I speak to my fellows who are impatient with the pace of
 change: in the primaries last month, I wrote in my own name to be a 
committeeperson, just because. Then, lo and behold, I'm told I've won a 
spot!
 I think, in those areas where progressives are 'shut out' by 
the apparatus of major parties, maybe encouraging 'write-in' campaigns 
might help. Either find people who we know to favor real, noticeable 
change or, if not, write our own names in and ask our friends to do so. 
We badly need, and I still hope for, an all-levels progressive tsunami 
this fall. Nor can we expect, and I for one feel we shouldn't solicit, 
large-scale donations but find out whatever we can do WITHOUT big 
money!!
 I suspect not many of us, myself included, are ready to 
enter the goldfish bowls and/or snake pits that public life and 
governmental assemblies have become, but if we don't, how will they 
become any less of those things?
 It really is up to us to do 
whatever we can. Even if we mostly lose, at least this is a start. We're
 rolling a snowball and time will tell how big it gets and how quickly. 
We can only do our own parts--so let's step up and do whatever we can 
right here, right now!
Monday, June 2, 2014
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