Nicholas Ruiz III
for U.S. Congress 2012
FL District 24
For the new wave of American progress.
You are the Quarry

by Nicholas Ruiz III


The biggest problem confronting the Democratic voter as we inch
closer to 2012 is not what you may think. No, it’s not the
Republicans, even as they seem to feel satisfyingly plump at the
prospect of having locked the Democratic Party brass (and their real
target - Democratic voters) in the narrative kingdom of mass
psychological deficit oppression and despair.

You must know there is more to the story.

First, some current events: the American Association of Retired
Persons (AARP) has rolled over on cuts to Social Security, the
centerpiece of the New Deal. Such an event is not minor, nor is it an
accident. Essentially, it opens the floor for the wrong Democrats to
do the wrong things, like negotiate the diminishment of the New
Deal program. To have done such a thing against the will of the
AARP would have been anathema. For Democrats to cut Social
Security with the AARP’s blessing makes it possible. The
conclusion is simple – the wrong Democrats negotiated the
complicity of the AARP to cut this program. The AARP would never
have volunteered such cuts to Social Security of their own accord.
As a result, the Democratic ‘negotiators’ now feel free to betray rank
and file voters – while blaming the big bad Republicans and the
grossly misguided deficit ‘patriotism’ of the AARP as they sell out
their grandchildren.

Second, Obama’s heavily anticipated troop drawdown in
Afghanistan. Its timing and heavily criticized inadequacy are hedged
alongside continued controversy regarding the legality of the
assault on Libya. Which is worse? You’ll never know – as the media
and voters are confused by the speed at which the sideshows
change and exchange their backdrops. All the while Hillary Clinton
and John Kerry install damage control with suave editorial excuses
and twisting policy positions that don’t bear grade school scrutiny.
A veritable Alice in Wonderland scenario, that is the carnival and
cannibal of and for you and I, the quarry in this hunt for votes in
2012.

I am a progressive Democrat. But I must say to you, there is no
greater imperative toward 2012 than for voters to eschew party line
posturing and voting – too much is not as it seems. Each voter in
every district must take its candidates at face value and show
ironclad support for only those congressional candidates that
would most undoubtedly fight through the flak for a clear theory of
New Deal expansion. These candidates may not even be in your
district – but remember it is a federal seat – so a progressive
Democrat elected anywhere helps preserve the New Deal legacy.
Nothing else will do. It’s obvious that Republicans will not expand
the New Deal. What is less obvious is that most Democrats will not
do so either. And that is your conundrum for where to cast your
support in 2012.

Democrats have been doing things the same way for far too long.
Been on the fence and been defensive, for far too long. We must
have the will to act upon a new vision, rather than pay podunk lip
service to New Deal legacy. Most politicians are as soft as a sneaker
full of dog dung when it comes to the reality of going to the mats for
the American New Deal legacy. Americans ask: “When will the
privatizing Greed end?” I say to you: “When you end it.”

And how to end it? By supporting only those candidates that you
feel in your heart of hearts, will expand the New Deal legacy. There
aren’t many, so it means you can concentrate your resources on the
candidates that will do the job, rather than allow yourself to be
distracted by those candidates that just shamelessly pander to what
they think you want, game you and lead your ideals to slaughter.

Put a progressive candidate in Congress.





























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