Political Games - Where the fuck’s the reset button?

Now we’re getting somewhere!

The truth is that I don’t give a fig about John Kerry or John Edwards. The three things I really care about are freedom, peace and justice - and it doesn’t seem that any of the puppet masters leading this insane dance consider those things to be important at all.

So, what the hell can we do?

The image of the puppet show fades and is replaced by a scene from the movie loved by toddlers everywhere: Finding Nemo. A net has surrounded the school of fish, and they’re being pulled in a tangled mass up to the surface. The fish are swimming in every way, in a panic that makes it all the easier to haul them in.

It’s up to Nemo, who isn’t even caught in the net, to swim in to that mass of panicked fish and try to convince them, one by one, to swim down all together so that they can pull the net loose and swim free again.

I’m not sure any longer that party politics gives us any real solution to the crisis of stampeding nationalism that is threatening to rip America apart. The only path that seems to have any chance of success is for dedicated citizens to break free of the dance choreographed by the conservative elites, take a deep breath, calm down, and then talk.

We can’t let our politicians do the talking for us any more. We must talk carefully to each other so that the fear upon which George W. Bush and his crew are thriving can be calmed. No single one of us can see the whole of the path out of this terrible mess, but I’m hoping that if we look togther, we can find the way to some much deserved peace.

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