“Crestfallen” is the only way to describe the feeling.
After ALL THE WORK on AntiPartisan action and AntiPartisanism, and then not get invited to the “No Labels” kick off on Monday at Columbia University!!
There is no question about the need to stop Whack a Mole Politics and to stop Tossing Rocks at Empty Pigeonholes (TRAPE).
Yes politics IS broken. It has been for at least three decades and becomes more broke with each passing campaign cycle.
BUT how to fix politics?
The “Founding Leaders” and the invited guests said all the right things…
BUT WAIT:
1,000 people in the audience?
A slick web site already up?
They have raised a million dollars BEFORE it was a public activity?
The “Founding Leaders” are primarily agents and shills who have worked for the two dominate political Clans.
The only ‘name’ from the Commonwealth has been described as the most craftily partisan politician in the large municipality where he lives and from which he was elected to congress and served as the chair of the Elephant Clan fund raising committee in the House.
It was pointed out on another Blog that the ONLY ‘senior’ Elephant Clan personalities were FORMER office holders who recently lost a primary to the WingNut / Anger of Ignorance Crowd.
You have to know ‘the system’ to dismantle ‘the system’ but is this just an attempt to preserve the 19th Century ‘Grand Old Two Party System’?
Is there a way forward that does not involve articulating an AGENDA?
Does it make sense to just raise money to ‘protect’ Clan candidates from Right WingNut and Left WingNut attacks?
After all, the primary DRIVERS of civilization’s dysfunctions are:
Unsustainable human settlement patterns,
A governance structure that does match the economic, social and physical structure of contemporary society, and
An economic system that lives on Mass OverConsumption, speculation and debt AND
WAS ALL CREATED AND IMPLEMENTED WHEN THERE WAS A FUNCTIONING AND CIVIL TWO PARTY SYSTEM – 1950 to 1990.
How will No Labels produce “what citizens want” when the vast majority of citizens have no idea what the real options are or what would be in their best interest as individuals, for their Households or as members of the hundreds of ‘communities’ (small ‘c’) in which every citizen is trying to exist?
The answer will be the Agenda No Labels articulates and how well they integrate those who do not care how ‘the system’ worked before it FAILED.
Perhaps it was not such a bad thing not to be invited…
EMR
