WRONG-- A Guest Post By Nicholas Ruiz III (D-FL)

Asleep at the wheel, the Reaganite zombies continue their stride toward the undemocratic past. They speak in the language of deregulation-- but only for narrow selfish interests.

The people, of course, they want regulated indeed. From stiff individual rules and fees for trade, bank, credit, insurance, health and investment accounts to the lowest minimum wage and rapidly decreasing civil rights and benefits in American moral history-- in the eyes of the conservatives, the people shall be, quite liberally, regulated-- while the philosophy of their conservatism shall apply, quite judiciously, to their own self interested, and pompously declared, pageantry and entitlements.

Emboldened by the complicit lack of Democratic resolve in resistance to the Republican attempt to deconstruct the collective solidarity of the American workforce, plutocratic interests in America are sharpening their blades for the only thing that stands between us and them-- the obligation of shared governance via collective bargaining between the working class and the self-proclaimed ruling class. There is nothing peaceful or diplomatic about their thrust. On the contrary, the Reaganites are doing everything in their power by taking the sword to the scaffolding of American democracy: shared governance. If they succeed, it will mark the greatest leap backward in a hundred years.

Americans may parry this attack. But we must not hesitate. The willing mindlessness of the Republicans to destroy shared governance must be met by the direct and steely clash of the strongest Democratic will and resolve.

Support truly progressive Democrats. Not careerists and opportunists, whom are unreliable, and are sure to bend like a reed in the wind to save their own hides.

FDR said in 1934: “Our frontiers of today are economic, not geographic. Our enemies today are the forces of privilege and greed within our own borders.” A near century later, that early truth is even truer today.

So the Reaganite zombies will stop at nothing to reduce America to a carnival of economic violence, via a cannibalistic hatred of shared governance, and the hypocrisy of selfish addictions, prejudices and special interest contradictions. The next moment they envision will be that of pure medieval filth: the working man and woman, drawn and quartered by economic horse and carriage. The end result being the creation of an American citizenship of docile bodies: citizens who are economic cogs in the wheels of financiers’ carriages, and whom have zero political power. How far are we from that place?

Considering the political sphere today, everyone acts surprised, but truly no one is; but the worse that it gets, no one will act surprised and everyone will be: surprised that America could get it so wrong.

America can never be dry-cleaned; it never was to clean to begin with. But to paraphrase something FDR said in 1936, we must purvey, and work to better, a government that lives in a spirit of charity, rather than tolerate the consistently crueler, omissions of a government frozen in the ice of its own indifference to the destiny of its citizens. Such is the difference between us and them.

The future is ours to take, America-- but it will require your strength, love and good conscience. Bring the light.

But for those in the Republican vehicle that is traveling backward in democratic time and space-- get out of the car:



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Nicholas is running for the central Florida congressional seat (FL-24) currently held by teabagger Sandy Adams. He's the first candidate endorsed by Blue America for the 2012 cycle. As you can see from his post above, he doesn't think like a better version of an Inside the Beltway automoton. When he gets into Congress he's going to make quote an impression. If you'd like to give him a hand achieving that, you can do so here, at our Blue America page.