We have lost the presidency to an incompetent moron again. We have lost seats in both houses of Congress because of the fervor of the religious right. But there is an even larger loss that we must address. We have lost sight of the virtue of progress in this country.
We liberals have lost the battle of ideas. We have been beaten in the war for the hearts and minds of the electorate. Why has this happened? It is because we have grown lazy. We talk amongst ourselves and not to the country as a whole, and even when we try to talk to the larger country, well, frankly they are too wrapped up in their own lives to understand that they are standing still in their tracks, or worse, moving backwards.
We have a challenge before us today. We can sit back and allow our republic to be irreparably harmed by the religous right, or we can revolt. I am not proposing a violent revolution but a revolution of ideas. We need to stand up and shake off the dust of this democratic party and make the party stand firm in our ideals. We must be bullheaded and progressive, mean and liberal, savage and smart, cunning and creative. And if the democratic party does not heed our call then we must form a new progressive party.
If the christian fundamentalists want this country then they will have to win a civil war of creativity and innovation, and their simple faith will get them nowhere other than where they are, which is standing still. Only we, the liberals of the United States of America, can move this country.
So, let us move.