If we wanted to live in a commune, we would

It is just amazing there are so many egotistical Americans who want to dictate that we live in their vision. That they don’t live that way is worthy of note. That they try hide their agendas and try smooth talk us into voting for them also is worthy of note. Will the issue of commune living applied to America ever die?

Does the end ever justify the means? Why can so many Americans even think chicanery and other propaganda methods overcome some perceived and some obvious injustices. And why is their method better than the present methods which have done much to advance American civilization and culture? Do these Americans ever step back and think that if we wanted to live in a continental commune, we would have already done this?

Of course politics is a dirty business, and idealism too often takes second priority to practical politics. But even in practical politics, somewhere our American vital national interests must come to take a place at the table in order for any American to be a viable candidate, even at the local level, which is where most elections occur. After decades of politicians from both national parties mining the vast wealth we taxpayers have generated, it is time for national interest to trump local interest and earmarks and borrowing and career politicians and their staffs’ benefits to pay for all this.

Vital national interests is not an academic subject. When people quit loaning our country money to pay the bills which already exceed our tax collections, then the subject will rise towards the top as our politicians fight it out, like the old days. We just plain cannot have it all, and will have to decide priorities. All the present election cycle for 2008 seems to be in never never land, as in the status quo will continue forever, and politicians can pander as in the recent past decades. We all know the routine: run to the extremes in the primaries and then run to the center in the election. Raise enough money to pay for this (and promise political future power and access to the budget), and apply all the propaganda media methods, and it has always worked, so it should this time again. The catch is the world and even America is not going along and even being awed. There are other factors at play. Those who have denigrated our country and voted and schemed to reduce our relative power now get to live with their consequences. The obvious one is no one, American or foreign, will follow, or even believe in, the commune idea.

The alternatives will take future leaders. In this citizen’s rural part of the country, none of the politicians running for federal office from either party are thought worthy of consideration. With a year to go, the race for president looks wide open from this rural point of view. But also this applies to races for local and state elections. For sure, this is not an election dominated by the original 13 colonies.

Vast change is in the air. If it doesn’t happen in 2008, then it will in 2010 or 2012. And it won’t be a commune, but it will be American and new world. And it will be voted in by all 50 states.