This diary may get myriad people mad but it is the reality of our America.
The reason I write this diary is because the left in our country, the so called progressives have become no more than hyperpartisan hacks who get engaged in the wrong battles, against the wrong enemy and who are directly responsible it is still dirty to be liberal in America, when the world liberal would be conservative in any other first world nation in the world.
This are a few examples of how our nation is still conservative
- We are the only first world country to have the death penalty
- We are the only first world country to not have universal health care, and even worse when we talk about it we only talked about having just government subisidize health care insurances so they can offer their horrible plans to everyone.
- We still have one of the worst paying teachers in the world, even when we are the richest country in the world.
- We have one of the worst unemployment insurance sysmtems in the world
- We are one of the only nations in the first world who do not provide free college educations and ways to obtain cheap graduate school education.
- We still have one of the most reggresive tax plans in the world
7 We still spend the most money in defense spending and military spending than the next 57 nations combined and that would be true if we just leave iraq. We still will have bases in over 120 countries in the world.
- We still donate the least per capita of all the countries in the world, when we are the richest nation on Earth.
- We still do not have public transportation systems like the ones in Europe
- We still do not invest in science, and energy independance as much as other nations on Earth.
But instead of focusing on that we instead:
- Focus on the drama of Joe Liebernmann and if he should stay in the caucus or not. That is irrelevant he has voted with democrats more than republicans and if people want a change then they should vote them out next time. Why waste our time in this things.
- Critizise every time Obama names a Clinton appointee, without remembering that we were way better than we were in the 90s and that if we want to get things done we need to act practically and not hyperpartisan.
- Attack Bush with ad hominen attacks. That doesnt help us convince the nation we have the right ideas. I know Bush was not a good president but being angry doesnt help. We need to start selling our ideas better, explaining why they made more sense economically, for our future, and why they will be more fiscally responsbile.
- attack the people in our party every time we dont agree with the words they say. I mean critizise them on policy but not with melodrama, and emotions. Sometimes we just engage ourselves with emotional drama against our own party and we forget to challenge the ideas of the conservatives.
- We dont offer an alternative to the republicans in FP. We need to be a party who says we are going to cut defense spending by 40% and use that 40% for this this and this. We need to be the party of ideas.
- We let the republicans frame the issues. They say we are the party of tax and spend, the big government, the party that hates our troops, the party of surrender, the socialists. NO we arent and we shouldnt keep saying no we are not. We should say what we are. We are the party of fiscal responsability, we are the party of an efficient tax and progressive system, we are the party of good government, of reasonable and smart FP, of the little guy of the people.
My point is that we have become the anti-conservative party. We end up responsing to their ideas and positions, instead of framing those positions. We end up responding to lies, instead of stating the facts.
We need to get back to our roots and become the party of ideas once again. We also need to vote for politicians like FDR who had good ideas and good plans to implement them, instead of electing politicians who fight among themselves and never get anything done.
Update : Just as I imagined liberals engage in direct ad hominen attacks. What do we get done saying Bush sucks? How America becomes more liberal?
We by the 10 standards I wrote are not even close to being liberal and whose fault is that is, our fault. When we are in power we do not get things done. We argue and argue and think and think but we dont get it done. Republicans screw up but they get it done that is why they are considered better at governing by Americans than we are. Its about getting it done.