I am still hopeful that continuing technological advances, along with liberal (lower case "L") attempts to proliferate these advances among the general populace will eventually continue improving opportunity in spite of whatever guy happens to be president. The advent of the internet did much to limit the information gap between the poor and super-elite. What advances would the average working class person need to be able to access the same fluid capital as a "good old boy" to fund their own venture? How do we radically decrease the cost of higher education and technical training for people who are looking at jumping into new industries?
I think there's a general agreement among our movement that, while the state shouldn't be in the business of picking winners and losers, a government should be giving its citizens the tools they need to be able to succeed-- considering that, not only is the average citizen fighting other Americans out for success, they're fighting with Chinese citizens, German citizens, etc. To do any less is setting people up for failure and is endangering the economic future of our country. In all of this financial mess, the fact that every American worker, who is slowly trying to claw his/her way to a better life, is fighting alone against billions of people who would work the same job for bread, water, and shelter. Limiting free trade is a poor choice given the overall economic benefits, so the alternative (to me) is to train Americans to do those jobs that no one else is advanced enough to do, and reject feckless income redistribution (social democracy) and laissez faire (liberal democracy). Will any president or any iteration of congress recognize this? On Thu, Jan 5, 2012 at 11:12 AM, Dr. Ernie Prabhakar < [email protected]> wrote: > Hi Tomas, > > Sent from my iPhone > > On Jan 5, 2012, at 8:05, Tomas de Utrera <[email protected]> wrote: > > > As it stands right now there will be no sharing of power if it is left > up to our present leaders. > > That is always the case. > > Power, like money, is rarely valued if given freely. We have to fight for > it. The real benefit of Democracy is that you don't have to kill the > existing leaders to take power back. > > MLK proved you can take power through sheer moral authority. So could we, > if we were willing to the price he did. > > If we are waiting for someone else to solve our political problems, then > maybe we really don't deserve to have them solved. > > E > > -- > Centroids: The Center of the Radical Centrist Community < > [email protected]> > Google Group: http://groups.google.com/group/RadicalCentrism > Radical Centrism website and blog: http://RadicalCentrism.org > -- Centroids: The Center of the Radical Centrist Community <[email protected]> Google Group: http://groups.google.com/group/RadicalCentrism Radical Centrism website and blog: http://RadicalCentrism.org
