Now that I’ve given a majority of voting Oklahomans pure hell, I think I should do something to pay homage to the good people of Oklahoma by honoring one of the greatest Oklahomans who ever lived, Ralph Waldo Ellison, the author of The Invisible Man.
This video below was produced by a young man for an English project, and perhaps speaks to the plight of the millions of unemployed young people in America, who need help now. May the current administration find a way to help these young people who, as the New York Times in an editorial in today’s edition outlined that plight, which is also the plight of every caring American as well.
I urge everyone to read the article and also to view another video about Ralph Ellison and the changes in America his book helped produce, which should give everyone in America some hope that change for the better can come, but in order to accomplish it, we must organize and continue to fight for that change as so many Americans who came before us did. As another Oklahoma Democrat, Will Rogers, famously said,
The fellow that can only see a week ahead is always the popular fellow, for he is looking with the crowd. But the one that can see years ahead, he has a telescope but he can’t make anybody believe that he has it.
Yes, Oklahoma has produced some fine people including the late great Democratic humorist, Will Rogers, who famously said “I am not a member of any organized political party. I am a Democrat”
I am proud to say that I’m one too, but the party better get its act together, because if they don’t we’re going to have to create another party that can live up to the great heritage of the Democratic Party and the changes in America brought about by Franklin Delano Roosevelt, who was reelected by the people of this country four times. There is still a need for a great deal of change in our party and I and many others are working hard to help that change happen. I hope you will join us by electing Democrats who put the needs of the people of America first. Only a fool doesn’t realize that the Republican party is not the party of the people but the party of the rich.
Electing Democrats is one thing, but the party keeps anointing candidates who aren't in the Democratic wing of the Democratic party. Here in Pennsylvania, the Beltway and the Governor's Mansion have presented us with an 80-year-old sitting senator who realized he couldn't again win a Republican primary (supposedly, he was once recorded as voicing support for evolution) now that all the liberal and moderate Republicans have given up and registered as Democrats.
Fortunately, we've had an admiral-congressman who's a lot closer to my concept of an actual Democrat willing to throw his hat in the ring, and we'll see if the base can overthrow the hierarchy. I get awfully tired of my betters telling me what's good for me.
Still, we've got a good chance of succeeding. Those poor noble-hearted and decent and truly patriotic Oklahomans under the thumb of the politicians they're stuck with, and surrounded by so many blissfully ignorant fellow voters, have a much higher hill to climb to pull their politics out of that played-out oil well it's wedged in.
Posted by: Joyful Alternative on December 24, 2009 5:38 PM