Reply #4: Beautiful. Exquisitely stated. Maybe because I agree with everything.

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When I read your subject line, I though oh oh - here we go with another Dem saying that we have to go even more past the center to the right.

All we have to do is hold the line on what is good in this country and go where good people want it to go to make it authentic and genuine in its representation, practice, and its protection of existing laws.

If we're going to be anti-something - we have to be less hypocritical in relation to the words we pledge in allegiance . We have to live up to the lessons we give our children about what this country is supposed to represent. We have to stand up against anything with a scent of bigotry and takeover - especially a takeover that means that the corporations, military, media, and evangelicals dictate the laws. We have to teach people that they are on a precipice and they must learn something about what is going on and just not consider politics to be a see-saw, hum-drum boring political joke that they can ignore.

It's a monster task for those who have been wearing blinders, but not impossible for people to learn what our corporations have done to us and that the radical religious in this country are no different than the radical religious in other countries, that our representatives in Washington don't always do their job for us and are becoming too weak, that we need total involvement on local, county, and state levels - just as the right figured out decades ago.

We have to do it with all honesty and bluntness and awareness of the clock and time that is available to turn this around. We need to fight the accusations that Dems are immoral and without values.