Is it just me? Have you sensed that a shift is occurring underneath America?
One is tempted to use the recent senseless mining disaster in Utah as a form of metaphorical realpolitik—certain assumptions about the indifference of Americans to the plight of laborers (an indifference exploited by the “trickle down economics” crowd and their descendents among the neo-cons) is coming to an end.
If the term “stewardship” has a slang sister it might be “get her done”. Americans are tired of insufficient government and corporate profiteering and the evidence is everywhere. Perhaps the most significant proof is that the silly “on again off again on again” presidential candidacy of Fred Thompson aint sparking the tinder grass of middle America.
I believe that despite the GOP’s collective veneration of Ronald Reagan that even “the great communicator” would have trouble selling his economic ideas to the current electorate.
While Republican senators and representatives look for ways to distance themselves from the war in Iraq they might also think about the very real need for investment in the nation’s social and physical infrastructure.
The candidate who is best able to articulate this vision of an optimistic American renewal of the middle classes will be the winner. The war should be a factor but I don’t currently believe this is the issue that’s moving below ground and in the collective unconscious of the body politic.
Still, someone on the stump has to be brave enough to say that the nation is tired of third class government. Not all of the New Deal was bad Mr. Reagan.
Please don’t get me started on the subject of public transportation.
SK
Planet of the Blind 
Boy, I hope you’re right. It’s a perfect moment for someone to step up and step in to a very real opportunity. We need a real leader who cares about this country again. Instead of these Rich Citizens of the World that seem to look at the globe like a chess game and how they can move each piece to only benefit them, or their small gang of friends.
I just don’t see it on either side right now. I just get the feeling that every one of them keeps thinking of what they’re going to “get” instead of what they’re going to be able to “do.”
Let me take that back just a little. I feel like Edwards is the only one who’s really trying and who seems sincere when he talks about leading “this” country and what the priorities should be.
I don’t know, we’ll see. I hope we see something good.
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Justin Dart said:
“Get Involved in Politics as If Your Life Depended on It
It Does.”
That’s my hope
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