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another working day in Canada!
Nov. 3rd, 2004 10:43 amI'm at the airport, so I need to be careful about statements of sedition because the walls of the wireless internet clearly have eyes and ears.
The Democratic Party (of which I am still firmly and proudly a member) suffered some major blows last night, with almost no victories. We've got Barbara Boxer and Barack Obama and, I dunno, stem cell research funding here in CA. But Daschle is gone, which is gonna be trouble, real trouble in the next administration, as this foundering party looks for a way to galvanize.
The problem is, as it has been, that the Democratic Party is too disparate (nine primary candidates, anyone?), from the "Michael Moore faction" on down to the Hillary in '08-ers, and we had enough trouble uniting behind Kerry. No one united behind Daschle, but without his presence we are seriously a headless beast, and I think over the next four years we're gonna see just how lame-ass this party can be without a force to light the fire under our asses.
So, I'm at the airport, off to NY for a week, and when I come back I'm meeting with Terry New, West Coast Director of the Democratic National Committee, and vying for a gig. Aside from that, I'm still with the lefty fundraisers, and I start my supervisor position in the next couple weeks, raising money and spreading awareness for the likes of EMILY's List, NARAL and a host of liberal watchdog groups.
Bottom line: this whole redneck state debacle simply lets me know that there's more work to be done, that I'll have to struggle just that much harder to fight for the rights and legislations I believe in, and to fight against the inevitable "moral" restructuring that's poised to come from the right.
Oh but DUDE I can't do it right now. Because I'm tired, and grubby from spending the night with Peter Jennings, and I'm at the airport, and I'm headachy, and I'm sad. And the truth is, it's as much our fault as it is anyone else's. The Democratic Party is NOT a cohesive unit. We are NOT a strong enough fighting force, right now. The right is, because at the end of the day, they can all get together behind fucking the queers, cutting down trees and killing brown people of every stripe. It's much easier to unite behind Ward Cleaver than it is to unite behind, I dunno,![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
mischa? Fuck yeah, I'm bitter. Me, today, I just want to crawl under the covers with Peter Jennings, but instead I gotta catch a plane.
Blah blah, another working day in Canada.
The Democratic Party (of which I am still firmly and proudly a member) suffered some major blows last night, with almost no victories. We've got Barbara Boxer and Barack Obama and, I dunno, stem cell research funding here in CA. But Daschle is gone, which is gonna be trouble, real trouble in the next administration, as this foundering party looks for a way to galvanize.
The problem is, as it has been, that the Democratic Party is too disparate (nine primary candidates, anyone?), from the "Michael Moore faction" on down to the Hillary in '08-ers, and we had enough trouble uniting behind Kerry. No one united behind Daschle, but without his presence we are seriously a headless beast, and I think over the next four years we're gonna see just how lame-ass this party can be without a force to light the fire under our asses.
So, I'm at the airport, off to NY for a week, and when I come back I'm meeting with Terry New, West Coast Director of the Democratic National Committee, and vying for a gig. Aside from that, I'm still with the lefty fundraisers, and I start my supervisor position in the next couple weeks, raising money and spreading awareness for the likes of EMILY's List, NARAL and a host of liberal watchdog groups.
Bottom line: this whole red
Oh but DUDE I can't do it right now. Because I'm tired, and grubby from spending the night with Peter Jennings, and I'm at the airport, and I'm headachy, and I'm sad. And the truth is, it's as much our fault as it is anyone else's. The Democratic Party is NOT a cohesive unit. We are NOT a strong enough fighting force, right now. The right is, because at the end of the day, they can all get together behind fucking the queers, cutting down trees and killing brown people of every stripe. It's much easier to unite behind Ward Cleaver than it is to unite behind, I dunno,
mischa? Fuck yeah, I'm bitter. Me, today, I just want to crawl under the covers with Peter Jennings, but instead I gotta catch a plane.Blah blah, another working day in Canada.
