Art of the Possible

I was a bit surprised by my fellow progressives this weekend. The’re was a very pessimistic view of the recent election. Now I realize that things aren’t perfect I mean Joe Lieberman is still in office, but the reason I’m excited isn’t just because the Dems won, its because We the liberals won them the election. let me re-phrase that. Politics is a corrupt business I don’t care what anyone says, its corrupt. The last 6 years our nation has been run by people who sold a piece of themselves to the right-wing and to big-business.  Now we have people in power who wither they like it or not were put in power by the left and unfortunately the Unions. So whats that mean, it means that we have some influence on them. I mean hell the blogsphere alone nearly toppled Lieberman who was elected but not selected to be vice-president in 2000.

It could be that these people aren’t connected to this wonderful thing we call collectively the blogsphere, if nothing else this internet creation is inspiring, as many people have put it, we each put a little candle in the window as a beacon of hope, in your own community it may seem hopeless as there may only be 3 or 4 candles visible, but if you go online and enter this domain then suddenly the candles are nearly blinding.

So am I hopeful about the next couple years, oh yes, but I am far from a lemming, as I think I have shown, I will not hold back against the Dems, they do not control me, but collectively we do control them (at least a little). To quote V for Vendetta, “the people should not be afraid of their government, government should be afraid of the people.” I wish that it didn’t have to rely on fear, I would rather the government simply reflect the will of the people, you know like a democracy, maybe we should try one of those.