Wednesday, February 26, 2020

The rise of progressive politics (#4043)

     Surely at this point no one can deny with an ounce of sincerity that our national conscience is moving to the left of center in politics. It is even difficult to maintain that our conscience is not moving further left toward progressive policies en masse. Which for the first time since the late 1960's would be welcome by what I see as a majority of American voters. This time, unlike other times in our more recent history there is an anger to those of us who are more than ready to vote our consciences. The turnout of our liberal/progressive citizenry has always been troubling in that we never seemed to get how important every votes is.
     Not so this time around. It is as if the many of us have had an awakening and instead of turning our attention away we are focused now on exercising our right to vote. The analysis for why this paradigm of inconsistent voting is changing has to largely fall at the feet of trump, mcconnell, and like ilk. Never in our national history has such a polarizing figure as trump been so blatant in his cruel and brutish attack on our democracy and our citizenry. There is no overlap as to intentionality when it comes to the republican party and it's devious agenda.
     So not only does the populist idea foment in the minds of we the democratic party of "all the people" but we are not subdued in our intent to end the travesty that is trump and his cult followers. Those of us who are registered democrats to vote in record numbers far outnumber those who are still under the sorcerer's spell. The rise of progress politics is the culmination of decades of decaying conservative control and the importance of progressive politics is now ever more vital. The time for our awakening in order to vote for our future is perfectly timed to not only end the appointed presidency of trump but to uproot the enablers in Congress that let him happen.

No comments: