edgecity

Reading this article and comments, and following the exploits of our executive branch and congress in recent months, several themes arise that leave me deeply saddened:

1. Our neo-con leaders appparently have high disregard for several values I hold dear including transparency, accountability, self-awareness and a world-centric care of life.

2. U.S. citizen’s reaction to this is often a desire to punish our neo-con leaders, and do so in a way that demonstrates the same lack of compassion and willingness to act immorally that they loathe in the neo-cons.

3. Democratic congressional leaders seem to have little will to hold the executive branch accountable beyond whining about them. Looking forward, I can only see a direct confrontation using forced entry into V.P. Cheney’s office as a means of ending his illegal secrecy. There is no political or legal entity in Washington willing to undertake this necessary task.

Democrats and Republicans are hopelessly lost as the leading parties in this country, IMHO. I believe America needs the formation of new political parties, based on the ability to recognize basic concrete truth free of ideology, the ability to reason while recogizing one’s own biases without being run by them, the value of compassion recognized as true strength, the willingness to defend it’s shores WITHOUT malice and disregard for non-american lives, and equality for all as written in our Constitution.

Good night and good luck.