MS: Man, I thought, and think, that Cynthia McKinney is a rad lady. The real McCoy.
MB: I hope that we are all getting smarter than that.
MS: I hope so too. I'm optimistic. I know I've told you this before, but I was humbled by the effort you took to make it to our meeting. That has to be a good sign, doesn't it? That a man in Antioch is willing to purchase a plane ticket to attend a Socialist Party meeting in Los Angeles?
A handful more Michael Bonannos, and we're in business!!!
MB: Thanks. I have a lot of questions, but, as you say, many of them might better be asked of Greg. Thanks for giving me your time and you know I wish you all the luck in the world in surpassing your goal.
MS: Thank you very much!! I look forward to the article.
MB: Have a good night, man.
MS: You too, my friend.
I, too, was humbled by Zolystik's compliment and, as mentioned, I did make the one day flight from the Bay Area to LA to report what happened at the Socialist meeting to OEN readers.
However, as a fairly new member of the party, I wanted to see what kind of "tyrannical" organization I'd joined. I suspected I didn't join a tyrannical organization at all and, boy, howdy, was I right?
The number attending the meeting was small as one would imagine with a total of only 100 in the local party. However, they made up for their size with their enthusiasm. One would have thought that there was another million out there that maybe just couldn't make the meeting.
There was none of the dry, whiny, cynical speech that we hear on C-Span everyday from Congress. There was fresh, passionate and very confident talk from these few Socialists.
I've heard that Democrats get into office and they try to make things right. It was FDR that started the social contract with Americans and, if one would listen to Democratic Party apologists, any Republicans who've been elected have worked hard to overturn those social contracts. The Democrats put money into public education and Republicans are elected and take it out and that's why our education system is so broken.
Republicans purposely run up the deficit so that, when Democrats take over, they can point to that deficit and say, "We can't sustain these social "entitlements" that the Democrats want because we have to get the deficit down."
Do you hear what the Democratic Party apologists are doing? They're blaming the voters for the Democrats' lack of accomplishing anything while they hold office.
Until Barack Obama became president, I thought that the best Republican president we ever had was Bill Clinton. Obama plays even more nicely with those who can't make it any clearer that they want to promote anything but the progressive fixes that America sorely needs.
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