Democratic Party and that commercial about scientists
My thoughts about the reasons behind our party's losses and Republican gains have been zig-zagging like a corn maze. It's six of this, a half dozen of that. It's too much identity politics, it's not enough. It's top-down, no, bottom-up. Maybe we've gone too far right, no....make that too far left. We need new blood, no, stick with the establishment. Stay pure with just Democrats. No....consider what some Independents are saying.
I've been a voting Democrat for over five decades but I've never felt this unsure about my party's future. The map is so red, the chasm so deep.
This morning I saw an ad which asked the viewer why we don't treat scientists like stars. It made me think of Millie Dresselhaus vs. Kim Kardashian, about a steady stream vs. a big splash. My mind wandered to thinking about what people we valued in our party and what people I value in real life. I tend to go with the streams, not the big splashes. That's why I've written about the woman who keeps the village laundromat clean and the guy I know who hitchhikes to work because he doesn't have the money for a new truck battery.
Our nation is filled with people to care about. Black lives matter like Native American lives matter. Women matter like men matter. Veterans matter like war protesters matter. I wish all our individual groups would join together under the banner of All for One and One for All. All the teachers, all the carpenters, all the janitors, all the nurses, all the truck drivers, all the stars, all the scientists. All the mansion dwellers, all the homeless. All the unemployed, all the CEOs. All of us. One for the good of all. All for the good of one.
I'm not willing to give up my deeply-held principles, but I am willing to compromise in other ways. Maybe we could establish coming together as a Democratic Party so we can defeat Trump and his enablers and save our country.
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