"The missile Has Not Been Invented...

...that can kill and ideal." Omar Torrijos. I have had a lot of trouble keeping faith over the past 6 years, but this simple slogan from Torrijos keeps me going. Torrijos was a man of the people, killed by the CIA in 1981 (though most documentation will say it was a helecopter crash,) who spent his life trying to help the poor of his country (Panama - so everybody.) Liberals just have to remember that we have an ideal for America and it will speak through the Conservative smoke screen. Freedom of Speech, Freedom of Worship, Freedom from Want, and Freedom from Fear. If those last 4 seem familiar, it's because they were the ralling call to fight Fascism, and are as necessary today as they were when Franklin Roosevelt first spole them.

I would add fair trade to that collection of ideals. It is time to end the era of fabrication and doublespeak. Clear Skies needs to mean clean air. Clean Water needs to mean that. And the only way to get teh changes that are necessary to bring America - indeed the world - back to speaking the truth is for Democrats to embrace their ideals and draw a line between themselves and the fascist republican party.

Not all republicans are fascists, the ones that arn't are called libertarians - and they have some merit, but will ruin the econimy too. The republican party on the cutting edge of 1920's economics, and if we keep down that regressive path, then we should all get familir with "bread line protocal." And once that happens, given the control over the voting process corperations have, there will be no Torrijos to come and save us. Time to stand up ourselves.