Garda: "It's hard to say. I can't pinpoint whether it will be different. One thing that might be different is that I have not even been active amongst progressives or at progressive conferences. I've been sort of content to read, study and write. However, beginning in 2004, my exasperation and outrage with the political and economic status quo in America seemed to reach a new level, and leading a life of quiet desperation no longer seemed morally tenable. Aside from the educational value of the critical panel sessions, we've organized a Collective Roundtable Brainstorming for Solutions session on Sunday morning, where all of us will hopefully pool our intellectual, activist resources based on a deep love for morality and justice, and come to some consensus on what steps must be taken in the short-term and long-term to install moralists as our leaders.
Right now most of our leaders are criminals. Every senator and congressman who votes to fund an illegal war of aggression is complicit in that war and is hence a criminal. Every senator and congressman who votes to deny free universal healthcare to the people of this country is also a criminal. Due to these criminal politicians, more than 18,000 Americans die prematurely every year only due to lack of ability to see the doctor. This is inhuman. Michael Moore calls it murder."
It would be great if you could say WHY this is not "just" a progressive conference...
Garda: "Again, Cathy, it's hard for me to answer this unless I can put myself into the mind of a "progressive." I can only speak for myself and say that I clearly am driven almost by forces beyond my understanding. No rational person would use personal credit cards to fund a national conference without any guarantee of return. I don't know any progressive who would take this kind of huge personal financial risk. So perhaps that's a difference right there. It may also be my personal determination to find some way to ensure that this is not just another conference, progressive or otherwise.
In my mind, something *concrete* must emerge. My vision is for it to be the seed of a revolution that must take place here in America. Demonic forces (literally) have taken our country in a radically downward direction, and now radical action is required to move our country back to a status where it can once again be included amongst the civilized nations of the world. So it's about bringing strong moralists together in one location and then mapping out strategies to create one mass movement to fight for political and socio-economic Justice.
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