It's never not timely for a radical leftist to say this. Over and over again.

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23. I have to call you out on strikes

strike one - in practice it is not good to embrace the label "radical". It makes you that much easier to defeat. Peace, love and understanding are radical concepts and radically different from the way most people live today, but they are NOT radical as things that people honor in principle.

strike two - size does not matter to me, as much as direction does. A "bigger change" in the WRONG direction is not a good thing. Is it? So why demand bigger changes? Why not "better" changes? And why call them "changes" at all?

Take the first item. "A ban on campaign contributions". The point here is that we need to RETURN to the principles that America is supposed to have been founded on - things like one person, one vote, things like a government "of the people, by the people and for the people.". So to limit campaign contributioins is NOT a "bigger change" as much as it is a "change back" to a government which is not bought by the corporations and the rich and run for their benefit.

strike three - Who is this Obama fellow? Is he Superman? Atlas? The Lord Jesus Christ? Is he gonna save the world all by himself? Right now polls are saying that the country will re-elect Obama, but will also re-elect a Republican house, and is perilously close to a Republican Senate.

I cannot say this enough. It is NOT all about Obama. Republicans need to be defeated in the Senate. Brown needs to lose in Massachusetts and win in Ohio. Republicans need to lose in the House. Bachman needs to be defeated. Ryan needs to be defeated in his house race. Jenkins needs to be defeated. Yoder needs to be defeated too, but unfortunately nobody is running against him. Of 435 Republicans running for the House, I would say about 410 of them need to be defeated. Maybe 25 of them are decent, or at least better people than their opponents.

Probably though, you are a younger person than I am. In my younger days, I embraced socialist and said "damn the torpedoes" to public opinion.

But I lived and I learned. I jumped on that windmill and got slammed to the ground.

As such now, if all my friends are jumping on a windmill, I am not gonna join in.