Liberal Resurgence

Posted on October 12, 2004 in Campaign 2004 Liberals & Progressives

Perhaps it is the great folk revolution in operation. Perhaps it is the InterNet we have to thank for the liberals fighting back and taking it to the neocon-artists and right-wing extremists like they should have all along. I’m seeing signs, good signs that people are standing like men and women. And I am seeing and hearing terror in the greedy and the cruel. Big media is breaking the law in a vainglorious attempt to change what may now be inevitable: that George W. Bush is toast as far as the confidence of the American people goes.

That the word is getting out fast, faster than the pundits can spin it out of consciousness, can be credited to the Internet. Which means you and me.

It’s the 1932 election all over again. The Big Money now proclaims an “Ownership Society”, an updated version of Two Chickens in Every Pot, Two Cars in Every Garage. This came about, eventually, but not because of the Republican Party of the time. It came about because of the prosperity extended to all by the Roosevelt and Truman administrations. The Greatest Generation rose to Greatness on the back of Good Government which was government which championed the interests of the small businessman over the big businessman, the worker over the mere stockholder, the producer over the schemer. Liberals are putting forth the message that we have been on the side of the average American and we have never left it. We paid off the deficit. We protected Social Security. We agitated for health insurance. The sanity that you enjoy, the positive work atmosphere which is so unlike the sweat shops of east Asia is due to liberals. Liberals allow you to become wealthy, but they do not allow you to be “more equal” than other people.

Every one of these initiatives that the average Republican now enjoys came about thanks to the liberals. Every one of these initiatives is now in danger under the worst presidential administration in U.S. history. And now we who support the New Deal instead of the Same Old Scat have the means of getting around Big Media, of getting the Truth to the American People.

We are not pundits — we are not Laputans who float about out of touch with the realities on the ground. We are people and we have found our voice. There’s no need to shout. We can just point to facts — the dead, the unemployed, the uninsured, and the squandered surplus. This is our case against Bush, the Prodigal Son who refuses to come home, home to democracy, to the land of the free and the generally prosperous.