Human Iterations

(Complicated)

It is, of course, most childish to think the Democrats would want my opinion on how they should go forward. Lacking any real committed and advantageous resources of their own, my advice can only remain an extrapolation of my personal political opinions and how they might be forwarded.

I've long been of the opinion that those hanger-ons who still remember the rhetoric of the revolution, both "right" and "left," are pieces of a fundamental whole that must be united to defeat the statist and nihilistic forces that seemingly dominate our world's current condition. And I long for the day when Libertarians and Progressives alike shed their mutual antagonism, recognize the common ground, and work to secure true liberty for all.

Forgive me, though. As a product of Portland Oregon, the city at the end of the American trail and securely set to be the future birthplace of The Revolution, I've developed a nasty habit of mixing Progressives and Democrats.

But the current Progressive faction of American politics emerged as internal opposition to the Democratic Party and Clinton's political runarounds. It is extremely unlikely to emerge at the head of the Democratic Party. Progressives can fight a marginalized and shrill rhetorical war within, or they can leave the Party's ranks and attempt to win small battles hands on. If they do splinter and divorce themselves from the Party in element if not in word, then there is a strong role waiting for them at the head of the Opposition. And, if they want to start winning they need to stop their whining attitude about social responsibility and focus on personal freedoms and liberties.

There is already a strong movement towards this across the country. And in Portland not only have the people overwhelmingly elected an extremely pro-civil rights Mayor, but there's been a clear surge among progressives to turn their unified attention on the Joint Terrorism Taskforce that's done so much to hurt individual liberty. A decision that provides great hope for what future the forces of reform now have before them.

Because I think that, behind all the twisting political opinions and world-weary senses of defeatism in this land, there's a certain human element that cannot help but cry out in pursuit of freedom. I think that this fundamental element underlies every human life and so long as human life persists I see it emerging time and time again in resistance to oppression and coercion. That is why I consider the neo-conservatives' well-planned effort to spread liberty by brute force fundamentally unattainable. That is why I think that this country's theological conservatives’ leadership will be subsumed by its people, pragmatic in their anarchism, but unrelenting in the face of oppression. And that is why I believe that any free-minded people will inevitably come to shake off the chains of team-sports and factionalism.

But this is just my two cents.

Friday night a mob of liberal students scaled the huge flagpole at Macalester College, tore down the American flag and burnt it in the center of campus.

That said. They left the flag of the United Nations still flying. It was the school administration that took it down the next day. Lest they be considered partisan.