Playing on a Short Field

Picture if you will, a football field. The end zone to the left is the Democratic Base and the end zone to your right is the Republican Base. You are seated at mid field on the 50 yard line. Back in the day...I refer to pre Ronald Reagan, the field was a full one and the choices in politics were very plain and obvious. There was freedom to cheer for your team and hardly any question of your moral integrity for choosing a certain side. There was a misconception made however that the media was Liberal. This became the launching point for a consistent effort to shorten the field by the right and to even the media bias at any cost. The Left was still busy trying to enact policy and provide leadership for the people and although we could see efforts being made to change the system, we were far too busy to get involved and we also thought that the people were smart enough to not be deceived by bogus tactics. Boy were we wrong on all counts. While we played by the old rules, the Republicans hijacked religion and the media, starting with the radio market and ending up with the mother of all evils, fox news. Right under our noses, the playing field got short changed from 100 yards to 50 yards. The entire game was now being played from mid field to the right end zone. The public was deceived into thinking that mid field was Liberal and that the red zone for the right was the middle. This is evident in the make up and discussions over the supreme court. We are now living in a land where Bush can nominate 2 of the most activist, conservative and openly Republican appointees of all time in Roberts and Alito. The Democratic leaders did not even challenge these choices based on the false testimony that they would not legislate from the bench and that as a gentleman's agreement, the next Democratic President could feel free to nominate qualified Liberal or Progressive Judges without a fight to the death with these same Right Wingers. We were once again proven to be gullible and have been stabbed in the back by these lying scums. Obama nominated Sotomayer, a well qualified person for the job but the Republicans went wild and you would have thought that the nominee was Malcolm X. As you can see, we are living in a world where mid field is now considered left wing and we are constantly told that we are a center right Nation. I submit that we are not now nor have we ever been a center right Nation. I submit further that we are a center left Nation. If the public was not constantly carpet bombed with conservative radio...the talk airways are overwhelmingly dominated by the right...over 90% and with conservative and biased "news"...fox news, then we might could see the truth. We might could get back to a level and full playing field. It is tough when the modern Republicans are hanging their collective hats on racial fears, moral guilt, fear of terror and the President and discrimination against the poor, ethnic and same sex relationships. The party of no has achieved all star status in delivering talking points, most of them being lies and in running on a sound bite rather than substance and policy. When they were allowed to govern with having the Presidency and both sides of Congress, we saw their policy and affects. The policy is obvious and a failure. Tax cuts to the wealthiest 2% and convincing the others that it is a moral obligation to vote for more of the same and against their best interest. If allowed to continue, the end result would be expanding and bankrupting the Government and killing Medicare, Social Security, Welfare and any other assistance or Social efforts, with the exception of Corporate welfare. I have noticed, that none of these right wingers seem to realize that there are more white people on welfare than black and Corporate Welfare exceeds public assistant programs by an insane amount. Simply look at Exxon Mobile, which made more profit in 2009 than any company in the history of the world and paid the large sum of $0 in taxes in the United States. Can you now see the impact of the Supreme Court ruling that money is speech and that Corporations can now spend unlimited amounts in support or hit ads in political campaigns. Thank you activist right wing judges. It is time that the Democratic Party spoke the truth because we have it on our side. We should expose the greed and lies on the right and make every effort to establish a full field again. At this point, we would have to have a Presidential race between Ron Paul and Dennis Kucinich in order to have a legitimate debate again. This would force the public to choose between two very clear and distinct views and make a decision based on policy rather than all the other fluff. Maybe this analogy is too simple but I am compelled to believe that simple truth may be our only hope for the future.