Author: Eternal Hope

Crossposted at Daily Kos, Booman, My Left Wing, and MyDD.

The Republicans have already done most of the work for us, with their spectacular implosion and criminal corruption. But for us to complete the task of winning in 2006 and 2008, we need to give people vision. To many people, the situation looks hopeless, with the rising war, budget deficits, peak oil, and a lower standard of living in the future.

If we fail to gain any seats, that tells me that many people think the situation is hopeless, that the Democrats are no different than the Republicans, and that politicians are just a bunch of crooks. So, we must do what FDR did in an apparently hopeless situation for our country during the Great Depression — he proposed a bunch of ambitious plans that brought us back to our feet again.

Hurricane Katrina has exposed the ugly veil of poverty for many Americans and prison for many young people left without a sense of hope. In my Kos diary from last night, I wrote about how teens hopelessly caught in the cycle of poverty face the prospect of life imprisonment as a result of Katrina and the way the Bush administration plays politics with human lives.

By contrast, Democrats and Progressives everywhere are generating ideas to put America back to work and craft a New Deal for the 21st Century. Tonight, I will feature a letter from Consumer’s Union President Jim Guest on his ideas.

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